# Cellophane

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Published: 2016-05-14 20:56:26 UTC
Updated: 2016-05-14 20:56:26 UTC
Author: TMFF Editorial Team




#### ‘Cellophane’ is Ambros Chapel's music video for the song with the same name. Directors Ruben Soler Ferrer and Santi Agustí “Sapone" aimed for an experimental mood with this one: two ballerinas dancing on a stage change their scenic movements from synchrony to a game of dominance.


 

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#### A strange feeling of choked, repressed emotions arises when Chapel sings ‘cellophane’. Shot in a very strange manner that manages to capture ‘close-ups’ of the two dancers’ movements, the video feels rather like watching a dance that teaches one about its anatomy - two dancers and the ‘competitive’ relationship between them - than the other way around - watching two dancers manifesting their own selves through dance.



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#### Editing sprinkles the video with ‘smearing’ effects making characters and gestures melt into each other and become indistinctive silhouettes of colours and shadows cast on a background that was once a stage. A red obsessive hue and dense pixels aid to the overall mood of the video making it transcend away from reality in a dimension of a submerged delirium quelled by the appearances, the surface layer of things. Once the surface is scattered, all the repression drains into reality, mutilating it and making it unrecognisable.



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#### The experimental video of Ruben Soler Ferrer and Santi Agustí “Sapone” combines with the instrumental metallic sound of the melody, touching a high chord that obsessively reverberates in one’s head.



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