Vladislav Delay – Toive

Posted by Fabio 28 October 2009

Vladislav Delay has released a new video for ‘Toive’, taken from the recent Tummaa album. The music video was directed by the very talented Carolina Melis (who has previously made videos for Efterklang and Colleen) and Lorenzo Sportiello. We caught up with Carolina to find out more about this mesmerizing piece of work.

Snow, ice, crystal balls and Global warming.
The piece is inspired by a series of photographs by greenlandic artist Arqaluarta Rosing. The series is called ‘Kassoq’ (Blue Ice) and it’s a portrait of the nordic frozen landscape. It’s impressive to see the different shapes and formation of ice: at time poignant and angular almost like futuristic architecture, other times round and shapeless like an organic matter.

The piece is a poetic reflection upon the issue of climate change and a metaphor of the transformations affecting the Arctic landscape.

The poles are the regions where climate change is and will be most rapid and visible. The effects of global warming on fauna and flora are particularly pronounced in the Arctic where the temperature has risen by more than 3°C over the past 50 years and they’re projecting it could go up another 7 degrees over the next 100 years.

Global warming is literally changing the look of the Arctic landscape and for the Inuit, this change in climate is not a scientific theory. The Inuktitut language has well over 50 expressions for snow and ice, but no words to describe the warm weather when flowers no one had ever seen are now growing on the same dry soil once covered by a frozen lake.

This video takes inspiration by the fascinating realm of ice and the transformation affecting the arctic territories. Vladislav Delay’s track Toive evoke an environment where gentle yet dynamic transformations are taking place. The progressive repetitions generate a sense of restlessness, tension, and this video intends to visualize this idea.

The video was shot in camera on a set, using live projections and incorporating time lapse photography. _Carolina Melis

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