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I'm VJing "Past Forward", a VidUKon 2025 vidshow showcasing fanvids that use older media (1980 and earlier) cut with modern music and editing styles. I would love your recs for fanvids that fuse the past and present and give a fresh perspective on familiar sources.

Click here for my Google Form for recs!

illustration of a film reel with retro style televisions. text reads: past forward vidshow call for recs

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CON.TXT 2021 - Premiere 6/26/2021
Fandom: Year of the Rabbit Music:
Espionage by Green Day
Description: Turn of the century London is full of dastardly villains and rotten cops.
Warnings: Visual Triggers, Sexual content, Graphic violence, Alcohol use, blood or gore, police / law enforcement

AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/32228653

YouTube: https://youtu.be/bHk39ytUXVA

A quick, fun recruiter vid for Year of the Rabbit (Channel 4, IFC). I discovered the series through a screencap last year. Period piece, comedy, Black characters, I was interested.

Rec (anti-rec?): The show was a fun watch! Set in 1887 London, the 6 part series follows the crimefighting adventures of a trio of misfit cops. The characters are fantastic as are the costumes and locations. The plot was a bit convoluted and wonderfully bizarre - there was a villain called Brick Man...um, like a man-made of bricks who stabbed people. I was delighted by all of the "new" technology (electricity, phones, bicycles) and how they were played for laughs.

The anti-rec is that parts of the show were viscerally repellant for me. I'm not overly squeamish, I don't think, but Merrick (The Elephant Man) - FANTASTIC make-up- I squinted through many of his scenes. Murky John who lives in the sewer and makes his living from... things in the sewers...THINGS IN THE SEWER! Inspector Tanner has an unfortunate meeting with a bomb that leaves him in a face mask - like those US Civil War or WW1 era crude masks meant to cover bits that are missing. It creeped me out. Some of the dialogue is...really foul. Not curse words, just, extremely descriptive lines about deeply unappealing things and ideas. Finally, some of the characters just seemed really dirty and stinky. Sometimes the show is a bit too earthy/vulgar for my taste. (And yes, I am fully aware that I have "outraged old lady" morals about some things while being positively enthusiastic about others, like swamp slick omegas in heat.)

So, while I very much *did* enjoy the show, it was a difficult watch.

But - I was on a tight deadline for a CON.TXT vid (because I squeezed a 3rd video into my 2 vid edit window) and knew I could do a fun WTF!? style vid for Rabbit quickly.

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I'm not (was not) a big MCU viewer. I'd seen Iron Man 1 for the novelty of it, then Iron Man 2 because I enjoyed the first and for Mickey Rourke (fresh off The Wrestler). I'd also seen Thor 1 because Ray Stevenson. Volstagg was mostly in the visually dark Act 1, disappointing.

I figured out most of the following films through social media and as a confirmed contrarian, found it all overwhelming and off-putting. Cross country airplane travel proved to be a good way to catch up on the films which is where I saw Age of Ultron. Not terrible, not great, watching on an airplane didn't help. Still, I like Artificial Sentient Intelligence characters bunches so that was one relatable-to-me hook into the MCU. Despite that germ of interest, I lived a relatively MCU-free life for many, many years - until WandaVision.

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Get Out Of My House

WandaVision (TV)
Content warning for cut cuts, bright light flashes, grief.
VidUKon Premiere 2021

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/XwjPuHDrte0
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31907746

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qpxm079iux1ejg0/Premiere_JinkyO_GetOutOfMyHouse.mp4?dl=0

Pumzi is a Kenyan science-fiction short film that is available on YouTube. It's a great watch! This fanvid premiered at Visioning WisCon on May 30, 2021.

Description: Something has to keep us moving forward.

Content Warning: Flashing lights at :48 - :54

Music: Come on Feet by Quasimoto

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31662875

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Person Of Interest | Glitter & Gold
100th YouTube subscription celebration vid!
Song: Glitter & Gold by Barns Courtney
Warning: Guns, explosions, slight blood
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30228528
YouTube: https://youtu.be/VxBZYa1AAU0

I ended last year with 56 YouTube subscribers, a bit short of my goal of 100, but decent enough growth from my start of 37. The real impetus behind growing the YouTube is to build in an audience for my vids. Because I tend to vid one-off fandoms for exchanges, or POI and Pros content, the natural audience pool is small. I can deal with small, but I'd like to reach as many viewers as I can. Also, I'm enjoying all the YouTube algorithm tinkering bits, so the quest for 100 was a fun side project.

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