Cyberpunk Cultures - Nostalgia for the Future

VIDEO DESCRIPTION:

Play, download and edit the free video Cyberpunk Cultures - Nostalgia for the Future.

"Assemble me, piece by piece / Strip away the incomplete, the model of the future."
In the 2014 music video for her song "Prototype," directed by Saam Farahmand and recorded for Channel 4’s #bornrisky campaign that aimed to tackle preconceptions and prejudices about marginalized groups, self-labelled bionic pop artist Viktoria Modesta uses her own physicality – she had a leg amputation below the knee at age 20 – to achieve a resignification of disability. The futuristic design of her leg prostheses, that, being works of art that reach far beyond their functionality as artificial limbs, radically change the silhouette of her body, her movements, the way she engages with her surroundings – her embodiment. By closely tying her sexuality, beauty, and fierceness to her amputeeism, Modesta promotes a new (posthuman) perspective on deviant bodies and what they can do.
In "Prototype", Modesta walks a fine line of stylizing herself both as an art object and an icon of empowerment - the source for both being her particular embodiment. The video's affective impact, however, derives from a striking audiovisual language, I argue, that productively combines tropes from sadomasochistic/fetishistic subcultures and the noir retro-futuristic aesthetics of cyberpunk urtext Blade Runner. While the surface structure of music video does not necessarily strike as overly cyberpunk, it nevertheless employs an iconography that subconsciously runs on a cyberpunk code which serves as an unfailing visual shorthand to signify futurity. "Prototype" fuses these subliminal cyberpunk visuals with Modesta's sensuality – epitomized in her fetishized leg prosthesis – and weaponizes it for social change.

Download, play and edit free videos and free audios from Cyberpunk Cultures - Nostalgia for the Future using RedcoolMedia.net web apps