The surrealist music video reimagines the myth of Sisyphus where he was cursed to repeat the same task of pushing a boulder up a mountain every day for eternity. Using the myth as inspiration, Sisyphos introduces us to a woman who presents a basket of bread to a singularly unique group of people in a church. She watches it get devoured within a few minutes, only to return to the task of baking more bread soon after.
The images that are thus used to delineate the process are taken a step further and suffused with symbolism and metaphors of their own. While the idea of cyclicality of life is conjured, it is coupled with a sense of openness of the vast outdoors where eventually the protagonist surrenders herself. The carnality of the visuals unfolding before you employ tight close-ups to invoke a sensuality that is loud and clear in the message it delivers to the viewer.
The well-thought visual development is coupled with Acid Pauli‘s remix of Johanna Burnheart‘s ‘Sisyphos’ to present the music video as a cohesive whole. It does a notable job of drawing you in its world of strange beings and their stranger acts, and ties it all together with a track that ensures that, as you try to comprehend the drama unfolding before you, your immersion in its otherworldliness and surrealism remains constant throughout.
Read LessThe images that are thus used to delineate the process are taken a step further and suffused with symbolism and metaphors of their own. While the idea of cyclicality of life is conjured, it is coupled with a sense of openness of the vast outdoors where eventually the protagonist surrenders herself. The carnality of the visuals unfolding before you employ tight close-ups to invoke a sensuality that is loud and clear in the message it delivers to the viewer.
The well-thought visual development is coupled with Acid Pauli‘s remix of Johanna Burnheart‘s ‘Sisyphos’ to present the music video as a cohesive whole. It does a notable job of drawing you in its world of strange beings and their stranger acts, and ties it all together with a track that ensures that, as you try to comprehend the drama unfolding before you, your immersion in its otherworldliness and surrealism remains constant throughout.
The mesmerizing track by Johanna Burnheart and Acid Pauli is titled “Sisyphos” and I knew I wanted to create a loose reimagining of the myth (of Sisyphus).
In life, we loop, we cycle, we create, we destroy. To create in the hope that the creation will never age or decay is to deny the fundamental truth of the material world. But the idea of being condemned to “meaningless” tasks without end appears to us as torture, I think, due to an existential anxiety that our lives are entrenched in cycles of repetition. I wanted to create a new Sisyphean myth - an individual whose creations are destroyed as fast as she can create. But someone who, on this day, enjoys the absurdity within the cycle and thus, finds a kind of release.
In life, we loop, we cycle, we create, we destroy. To create in the hope that the creation will never age or decay is to deny the fundamental truth of the material world. But the idea of being condemned to “meaningless” tasks without end appears to us as torture, I think, due to an existential anxiety that our lives are entrenched in cycles of repetition. I wanted to create a new Sisyphean myth - an individual whose creations are destroyed as fast as she can create. But someone who, on this day, enjoys the absurdity within the cycle and thus, finds a kind of release.
Sorcha KennedyDirector, Sisyphos
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