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 No.28818

Can music videos be considered as short films?
https://youtu.be/Wpm07-BGJnE

 No.28819

Yes, sorta. It's difficult to do it without sounding like a pretentious cunt.

If they carry a narrative you could very easily call them a short film. Lots of older music videos had a bit of a wind up at the intro and a little storyline to follow just like this Nicki Minaj one. Another good narrative example is Beastie Boys Sabotage, which is done in the style of opening credits to a fictional TV show but it still has strong narrative elements (characters, conflict, resolution etc).

If they don't really have a narrative then selling it as a short film is a little more difficult. If it's something just like the band playing their instruments in a studio, it's possible to call it a "documentary". Otherwise it's gonna be something like a non-narrative, abstract movie. You can see how quickly this can become pretentious artwank.

A pedant will also say it's not a "film" though, because it wasn't recorded on actual film stock. Most music videos are just that, shot on video. They'll call it a "short movie" instead or some shit. Or they'll say it doesn't count as a "real" short film because of some obtuse bullshit definition of theirs. The music itself doesn't really affect its status as a film though, there are plenty of musical films with either little or no dialogue and more-or-less nonstop music (Fantasia for example) that are still called films.

Hope that makes sense!



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