Selbst - Sculpting the Dirtiness of Its Existence

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The video clip for 'Sculpting The Dirtiness Of Its Existence' was conceptualized together by musician N. and Fabio, before it was brought to life with a film crew in Venezuela. N. narrates:
The video was shot by Fabio and his crew in Venezuela in the "Valle del muerto" (Valley of the dead) in Mérida, a region that is part of the Andean range of mountains that goes through all the continent. They casted Ronnie Nordenflytch, a Chilean actor residing in Venezuela, to play the main character. We were in constant communication about the progress, mostly through post-production, discussing ideas back and forth about the assembly and editing of the footage. The clip deals with the idea of creation and self-destruction as well as with the concepts of solipsism and nihilism. It also includes literary references such as the short story "The Circular Ruins" by Jorge Luis Borges which works with allegories and examines the topics of artistic creation and the so-called causa sui – an object being the cause of itself. In the context of the video this means that the character is not more real than his own creations. You can see a being coming to life in a vast and isolated place, where he finds himself overwhelmed by this vastness and emptiness, therefore feeling the need to create and sculpt clay effigies resembling his own likeness. He ends up destroying all of them, thus destroying his own reflection and falling apart himself...
 
Credits
 
Directed & edited by Fabio Rincones
@unrincones
 
Starring
Ronnie Nordenflytch
 
Assistant director - Pierina Espinoza @piaespinoz
 
Director of Photography - Victoria Uzcátegui
 
@slrno
 
Production assistant - María Niño
 
@anitosangrante
 
Art directors - Fabio Rincones/Pierina Espinoza
 
Wardrobe - María Niño
 
Make up - Fabio Rincones/Pierina Espinoza
 
Prop Master - Fabio Rincones
 
Shot in Mérida, Venezuela.