Description:

While traveling and assembling ideas listening to this song of Moby, the idea to use the myth of Orpheus came to me inspired by the lyrics and the melancholic tone of the song. "Wait for me", "I'm gonna ask you to look away" etc can be quite reminiscent of this ancient myth and it's tragic ending (Orpheus seduced the gods so that he could bring back his wife from the dead, but he couldn't turn back to check if she was following him before they arrived on earth, otherwise he would lose her a second time. Eventually he couldn't resist and ... )

I liked the idea to use a theme that corresponded to the song but that at the same time wasn't directly connected to it, and that it allowed us to use many different places where we could capture interesting and different pictures that would end up mixed together, building something also visually intriguing.

The editing in the video includes simultaneously both the past of the lovers (mainly through idealized visions of the man, suddenly interrupted by the unhappy girl's reality) and the quest of the man - compared to Orpheus - to bring his girl back to his real life through strange and deserted places.
I wanted to maintain the doubt about the origin of this loss for him: was it like in the myth and was she dead or was it just a lovers breakup that he couldn't stand and so lives in his fantasy world, dreaming of taking her back and losing her again and again.

Anyway it was made in emergency, traveling from one place to another the same day, finishing at 5am to wake up at seven so it is far from perfect and completely finished, but i hope that it catches the mood of this beautiful Moby song enough so that you can enter the trip and enjoy the ride, wether you're trying to understand the characters or just enjoying pictures moving with the pace of this music, which would already be more than enough for me!

Take care and thanks for watching!