Video Collage: At First The Words
At First The Words is video collage about the way that time can erode our confidence in childhood stories. Once-comforting phrases are revealed to be insufficient for navigating reality, though they may be colorful and picturesque (and contain more than a kernel of truth). The young heroine and the bitter queen are imagined to be two versions of the same person, whether separated by age or perspective.
- Images: clips from a popular 1930s animated film about a princess, some halflings, and an evil queen
- Music: The Holograms by Fol Chen
The repeating Lyrics of Fol Chen’s funky-awesome song are:
First the words were good
they helped us understand
but then the sounds would
double like holograms