
A visual tribute to Aronofsky's Black Swan and Natalie Portman with music by Tchaikovsky. Please watch in HD where possible. Thank you. "DISCUS, with Foreseeings bestarred throw yourself out of yourself." - Paul Celan Visuals from the exquisite Black Swan (2010), directed by Darren Aronofsky. The music, in order of its appearance in the video, is: - No 28, Scene, and No 29, Scene Finale, Act IV, from Swan Lake Op 20, by Peter Tchaikovsky (1876) - No 10, Scene (Moderato), Act II, from Swan Lake - Movement II: Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers, from the Symphony No 9 by Gustav Mahler (1909) [in reverse] - No 18, Scene, Act III, from Swan Lake - No 24, Scene, Act III, from Swan Lake Swan Lake performed by the Montréal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Dutoit for Decca. Symphony No 9 performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, conducted by Leonard Bernstein for Deutsche Grammophon. When I made this video, I edited the penultimate sequence with the music already reversed. I was curious as to what the sequence would look like when played backward, with Mahler's music untouched and played normally. For those curious, here it is: www.youtube.com
Black Swan
Natalie Portman
Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake
ballet
tribute
dancing
art
aesthetic
sublime
dark
madness
Nina Sayers
scene
scene finale
Darren Aronofsky
2010
artistic
waltz
deranged
Dutoit
Montreal Symphony
orchestra
classical ballet
weird
Mahler
symphony No 9
Leonard Bernstein
sublimation
becoming
allure
sacrifice
I was perfect
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