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thuvia ptarth ([personal profile] thuviaptarth) wrote2010-01-31 07:04 pm

[Fringe] VID: Etheric Messages (Festivid)

Title: Etheric Messages
Fandom: Fringe
Music: Natacha Atlas, "Etheric Messages"
Length: 2:08
Recipient: [livejournal.com profile] charmax for [livejournal.com profile] festivids (original post)
Notes: Thank you to [livejournal.com profile] counteragent, [personal profile] laurashapiro, and [personal profile] lithiumdoll for beta, and to [personal profile] nestra for assuring me I wasn't missing the beat and A. for providing the initial translation.

Summary: The recruitment of Olivia Dunham.

Note: This has been slightly revised since going up for [livejournal.com profile] festivids.

Password: recruit



[Fringe] Etheric Messages from thuvia ptarth on Vimeo.



Download: AVI 720x480 (69MB) | AVI 640x360 (30MB) | Subtitles (1K)



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Lyrics
Ya leel
O Night
Maktub
It is written
Kulli shey maktub
Everything is written
Maktub
It is written
Fil ahlam
Written in dreams

"Maktub" is an Arabic term that means "It is written [in the book of life by God]"; it is sometimes translated as "destiny."


Image

I will spare you all the long boring story of how I was really trying to make a more cheerful Fringe vid for poor Charmax and apparently I am just not very good at happiness. But I really wanted to include one image because of the lyrics, and then it kept moving back and further back on the timeline and eventually it moved off the timeline entirely. So sad! So I will seize this opportunity to show it to you.



See? It's perfect. Except for as how it would not actually fit in the vid.
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Etheric Messages, now that I have seen (almost) all of the episodes it uses

[personal profile] laurashapiro 2011-01-03 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
I liked this vid a lot when I betaed it, having zero familiarity with the source. Now that I know what (most of) those images are referring to, I really like it. The creepy beauty of it, the deep thinkiness of the concept, Olivia's amazingness holding the whole thing down. Just wow.