The Mouth Project

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I promise I didn't forget about this thread, I just have ADHD and a full-time job, and making new videos was more fun than writing about them, so I have a bit of a backlog to share here again.

This one is for Close to the Sun, track 15 on Mouth Silence. Kind of a random pick, but I had a really specific idea for it and the song was short, which I really needed after almost burning myself out trying to bring Piss together. What a sentence.

This video doesn't have any major warnings, unless you have scopophobia, I guess, because there's an extended close-up on (non-realistic) eyes.

Artist Statement:

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It's kind of hard to explain where the idea came from, because this is one of those that kind of just appeared fully formed in my head. I was thinking about birds, and getting close to birds, and how they scatter when you run at them. And I thought about how that's a thing in video games, these little incidental birds that you can never really get close to, because they're not meant to be looked closely at. That also got me thinking about video game distance models in general, and things in games that you're never meant to see close-up, but how there's a whole community around trying to see them.

Shoutout to Shesez and Boundary Break, by the way. Those videos were a major inspiration for this one, and I used a lot of footage from them in this.