Unheimlichkeit questions the worrying feeling of strangeness developed by Freud. In German, the adjective heimlich means familiar. Un prefix makes its antonym: what was familiar becomes foreign. Keit suffix is used to form a noun from an adjective.
I invite you to take a spiral walk in the creeks, which at the same time makes us always retrace our steps, and always move further away, with the puzzling impression of a reality that evaporates. What was nice becomes disturbing. It is an involuntary return to the same point, and each passage, experienced differently, causes an indefinable hunch.
According to Freud, “Anything that reminds us of the automatism of repetition residing in ourselves is felt to be strangely disturbing. » (Freud, 1919).
Pollution, in this landscape mainly described as “beautiful” by hikers, is discreetly mentioned, as a metaphor for this strange feeling, this almost invisible pollution that tests our geography, our ontology anchored in this territory.
Through the concept of Unheimlichkeit and the underlying theme of pollution, this music video is an experience attempting to trap the sign, to question the logical articulations, the usual audiovisual codes.
The listener is invaded by a slight sense of unease, a strange feeling which could even become frightening in a situation however familiar.
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