Bizarre video/short film I saw on YT a few years ago [S]
Aug 19, 2020 14:40:46 GMT
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Post by Automaton on Aug 19, 2020 14:40:46 GMT
Hi Lost Media Forums,
I've been trying for over a year to locate this incredibly surreal video that I saw on YouTube between late 2017 and early 2019. I've asked on Reddit and TV Tropes numerous times to no avail, and it's starting to stress me out to a certain degree. I'll paste in my most recent description from Reddit:
What I remember the most about this video is that it began with the "camera" moving around a rendered apartment complex, similar to that used by architects to promote designs. There were CGI people moving around and the view switched to inside one of the apartments itself, where there was something playing on the television.
Next, the video shows an aerial image of the crosses used in the Corona Satellite program for calibration, before zooming in. There was possibly a narrator describing their purpose. There is a cut to the desert itself, where people are dancing on either one of the crosses or some kind of landing strip. The dancers are wearing body suits and possibly had giant eyeball masks, not dissimilar to those worn by experimental band The Residents (though I don't believe it's one of their videos).
In addition to the masks/helmets, the dancers wore body suits and were bombarded by corny green screen imagery (think along the lines of those explosions people used to use in meme videos). I also vaguely remember a chain-link fence being in one of the shots, and possibly the camera crew themselves. In spite of the cheesy effects, they seemed like a deliberate aesthetic inclusion and the work on the whole seemed fairly high-budget.
The dancing went on for an indeterminate period of time, and I remember feeling bored yet compelled to continue watching. It could have lasted anywhere between two to ten minutes, and may have cut away to different "scenes" which I have since forgotten about. I vaguely remember the theme of surveillance playing into it.
Eventually, the video zoomed out of the desert and returned to the CGI apartment complex, ending pretty much how the video began.
This has been haunting me for a long time and I have spent hours searching for it; I've looked into avant-garde video artists and "creepy" video playlists to no avail. Whilst it's possible I am conflating more than one video here, I am almost certain that this wasn't a dream because it's how I learned about the giant crosses in the desert in the first place. Searching for anything with "corona" in the name is a tad more difficult these days, but even last year I had no luck either.
The closest match I can find are some of the works by Jon Rafman, but the live action/green screen sequences don't fit any of his films.
The weirdest part is that this kinda just came to me when a post about the satellite targets triggered a sorta flashback. I have no memory of ever thinking about this video between when I feel like I watched it and suddenly remembering it out of the blue, which is why I'm sorta concerned that this is an entirely fabricated memory. It's also possible that I am conflating multiple videos here, but I've still been unable to find anything that matches the desert dance sequence.
If anyone knows what video(s) I'm talking about, I'd hugely appreciate it. This is driving me crazy and sorta making me question my sanity.
I've been trying for over a year to locate this incredibly surreal video that I saw on YouTube between late 2017 and early 2019. I've asked on Reddit and TV Tropes numerous times to no avail, and it's starting to stress me out to a certain degree. I'll paste in my most recent description from Reddit:
What I remember the most about this video is that it began with the "camera" moving around a rendered apartment complex, similar to that used by architects to promote designs. There were CGI people moving around and the view switched to inside one of the apartments itself, where there was something playing on the television.
Next, the video shows an aerial image of the crosses used in the Corona Satellite program for calibration, before zooming in. There was possibly a narrator describing their purpose. There is a cut to the desert itself, where people are dancing on either one of the crosses or some kind of landing strip. The dancers are wearing body suits and possibly had giant eyeball masks, not dissimilar to those worn by experimental band The Residents (though I don't believe it's one of their videos).
In addition to the masks/helmets, the dancers wore body suits and were bombarded by corny green screen imagery (think along the lines of those explosions people used to use in meme videos). I also vaguely remember a chain-link fence being in one of the shots, and possibly the camera crew themselves. In spite of the cheesy effects, they seemed like a deliberate aesthetic inclusion and the work on the whole seemed fairly high-budget.
The dancing went on for an indeterminate period of time, and I remember feeling bored yet compelled to continue watching. It could have lasted anywhere between two to ten minutes, and may have cut away to different "scenes" which I have since forgotten about. I vaguely remember the theme of surveillance playing into it.
Eventually, the video zoomed out of the desert and returned to the CGI apartment complex, ending pretty much how the video began.
This has been haunting me for a long time and I have spent hours searching for it; I've looked into avant-garde video artists and "creepy" video playlists to no avail. Whilst it's possible I am conflating more than one video here, I am almost certain that this wasn't a dream because it's how I learned about the giant crosses in the desert in the first place. Searching for anything with "corona" in the name is a tad more difficult these days, but even last year I had no luck either.
The closest match I can find are some of the works by Jon Rafman, but the live action/green screen sequences don't fit any of his films.
The weirdest part is that this kinda just came to me when a post about the satellite targets triggered a sorta flashback. I have no memory of ever thinking about this video between when I feel like I watched it and suddenly remembering it out of the blue, which is why I'm sorta concerned that this is an entirely fabricated memory. It's also possible that I am conflating multiple videos here, but I've still been unable to find anything that matches the desert dance sequence.
If anyone knows what video(s) I'm talking about, I'd hugely appreciate it. This is driving me crazy and sorta making me question my sanity.
