Gift for bironic by Laura Shapiro (Wings of Desire)

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Title of vid: What No Angel Knows
Recipient: bironic
Vidder: Laura Shapiro
Fandom: Wings of Desire (1987)
Music: Dance / S'loyfn, S'yogn by Moira Smiley and Voco
Summary: What does it mean to be human?
Content notes: No standardized notes apply
Signed length: 03:08

Link to signed vid post.

Lyrics
Spoken in English:
When the north wind brings the cold air
Should we laugh and dance against it?
Or should we sigh with its groaning?
My child, your father sends a message of hope
From a cold, dark land
Where he is digging graves
For all lies

The lyrics song are in Yiddish. Translation:
Dark clouds race and rush, the wind whistles and blows. Your father sends greetings from Siberia to you, my child. It is the wind that brings a greeting from that cold land. There your father stands with a shovel in hand. And he digs deeper and deeper – shoveling out the earth. Don’t worry – he’s digging graves for all lies. He’s neither the first nor the last to fall in the field. But don’t worry, my child, a great hero bore you. And you’ll grow up to be a hero. So sleep, sleep now. Gather your strength for the future my only child.

Comments

[livrelibre]

This is so gorgeously well done! Great song choice and use of the switches between black and white and color and the editing (esp. all the glances and little gestures on the beats) is great. I'll certainly be rewatching this again and looking up the source.

[laurashapiro]

Thank you so much! The film's use of color vs. black and white is spectacular and carefully reasoned; I wondered how it would work for the vid since I've changed the meaning of the color footage here. I'm so glad you liked this.

The movie is great. Highly recommended.