Club Vivid Premiere!!!!!

[seekingferret]

Title: Warning: Might Lead to Mixed Dancing
Responsible for the lack of consistent title block from vid to vid: seekingferret
Vidder: seekingferret
Song: "Et Rekod" by Yakov Shwekey
Fandom: Um... all of them? Or at least 104 of them.
Content Notes: Warning: Might Lead to Mixed Dancing
Length: 4:16
Summary: All the Jews! All the Feelz!. The Jewish dance vid of my heart.
Premiered at: Club Vivid 2017
Thanks to: Oh, man, the list. First and foremost, thanks to sanguinity and ghost_lingering for so much support and helpful feedback. Thanks to kass for positive feedback when it was desperately needed. Thanks to J,L,L,T, and B for giving me the opportunity to watch people respond to the vid in person and see what was landing. Thanks to a different J and L for offering a round of specifically Jewish feedback. Thanks to thirdblindmouse for canon suggestions and source provision. Thanks to anyone who has listened to me babble about Jewish movies in the past year, which is most of the people I know, even if they didn't necessarily know the reason I was watching a particular movie or show.

(Download available through the Critical Commons website. Note that you have to get a free account.)

(also posted to youtube)

I have so much to say about the making of this vid and my feelings about all the characters and fandoms in it that it's honestly a little paralyzing. I've written thousands of words of reveal notes and I still have thousands of words to go, but here is the vid! I worked on this vid from October to May and I poured all my heart and all my soul and all my might into this vid. It feels so amazing to finally share it with the world. It was so amazing to dance to it at Vividcon, wearing my Soulless Golem T-shirt.




There is a time for everything
A time for love, a time for hate
A time for war and a time for peace

But tonight we are all happy
It’s time to dance!





The Chosen
Crossing Delancey
Liberty Heights
The Matchmaker
The Wedding Singer
Aimee and Jaguar
Avalon
Babylon 5
The Hebrew hammer
Mass Effect
ER
Munich
Cupcakes
Ushpizin
The Bubble
Dirty Dancing
The Frisco Kid
Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueberger
Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
School Ties
Rent
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Defiance
Wish I Was Here
Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Dough
Loving Leah
The Social network
Moses und Aron
The West Wing
Keeping Up with the Steins
You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
Chuck
Inglourious Basterds
Fiddler on the Roof
Brooklyn 9 9
Crazy Ex Girlfriend
Fill The Void
Falling Star
The Jazz Singer (‘80)
Keeping the Faith
Yentl
Exodus
Pushing Daisies
Happy Endings
Friends
Serenity
The Last 5 Years
The Producers
Meet the Fockers
Glee
How I Met Your mother
Sports Night
Sixty Six
Friday Night Dinner
Will and Grace
Big Bang Theory
Funny Girl
The Goldbergs
Covert Affairs
Holy Rollers
Arrow
Entourage
Goodbye Columbus
Everwood
The Wedding Crashers
The Nanny
The Night Before
House, MD
Srugim
Clueless
Woman in Gold
History of the World Part I
New Girl
Walk Hard
NCIS
Royal Pains
Kissing Jessica Stein
Obvious Child
Gilmore Girls
Wet Hot American Summer
Broad City
Rachel Getting Married
Soon by You
Knocked Up
Tropic Thunder
A walk on the moon
Life is Beautiful
Grey’s Anatomy
Opportunity Knocks
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Secrets
Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Curb Your Enthusiasm
La Haine
Through the Wall
Transparent
Sex and the City
Rosalie Blum
Rhoda
The Band’s Visit
Mendy
Taxi
Mad About You

Comments

[sanguinity]

Yay hooray! \o/ I loved this from the first draft I saw, and I am so pleased to see it all grown up and out in the world!

[seekingferret]

Thanks! Me too...

[lannamichaels]

I love this :D

[seekingferret]

Thanks!

[kerithwyn]

Fantastic, I was chair dancing and missing VVC all over again. Lost it at Ivonava and that last shot (well, second to last) is perfect. Love it madly.

[seekingferret]

Thanks! VVC missed you too.

[kass]

I can't wait to read your commentary on this if and when you feel like posting it; I loved this vid when I saw it in draft form, and I loved it even more in the context of Club Vivid. It is fabulous and was a delight to dance to! One of the highlights of my weekend. :-)

Have a wonderful time in Helsinki!

[seekingferret]

Thanks! (he says from the Amsterdam aiport, waiting for his connection to Helsinki.)

[starlady]

This was so great on the stream, I'm sure it was amazing live. Looking forward to the notes!

[seekingferret]

Thanks! Unfortunately I was out of the room for the first half of your Clone Wars vid and I'm going to have to go back and rewatch it. The part I saw looked great.

[gwyn]

I loved this so much! Seeing clips from The Chosen and Crossing Delancey, two of my favorite movies from my youth, made my heart soar, and that you also managed to have all these other wonderful characters I know, I was like, Oh! Him! Oh! Her! all the way through (especially Oded Fehr OMG). I'm so glad you made this.

[seekingferret]

Thanks! I'd never seen Crossing Delancey before this year, but it's so great. It's one of the things I'm most grateful to this vid for introducing me to.

[such_heights]

This was so wonderful, and the last shot brought a little lump to my throat! Any vid containing Brooklyn Nine Nine, Mass Effect and Joseph & the ATD has to be a winner. :D

[seekingferret]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! thirdblindmouse is responsible for Mass Effect being in the vid.

[purplefringe]

oh my god, oh my GOD I DID NOT KNOW I NEEDED THIS UNTIL IT APPEARED. THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT. THANK YOU. It made me laugh and it made me cry and even though I only recognised a fraction of the fandoms it made me flail with glee every time I glimpsed someone I recognised, I did keep wondering - where is Willow?? and then she ENDED the vid and it was PERFECT and I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR (MITZVAH). I will be watching this a MILLION TIMES. Also, if you do ever want to post your thousands of words of thoughts, I would ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY want to read them.

THANK YOU.

[snippy]

I agree with this comment!

[jesse_the_k]

Delightful. Looking forward to rewatching many times.

[seekingferret]

Thank you!

[jadelennox]

Wow. This totally made me cry.

(Partly because it made me wish so hard I could show it to my dad as a way of saying "DAD LET ME EXPLAIN FANDOM TO YOU.")

So much yiddishe dancing joy.

[seekingferret]

Thanks!

The boundaries between my fannish identity and my Jewish identity are something I police so carefully, too, and I'm always fighting to find confluences that let me bring both identities to bear at the same time without contradiction. So yes, I understand about your dad.

[giandujakiss]

This made me so happy!!!

[seekingferret]

Thanks!

[cosmic_llin]

This is delightful!

[seekingferret]

Thanks!

[ratcreature]

I'm unfamiliar with most of the sources, but this has great energy, and made me smile.

[seekingferret]

Thanks! I don't imagine anyone is familiar with most of the sources- even I haven't watched the whole source of everything in the vid.

[raven]

This is wonderful.

[seekingferret]

Thanks!

[semielliptical]

This was so much fun to watch. Truly delightful!

[seekingferret]

Thanks!

sending love

[littlecatk]

i saw this on tumblr without any notes, started it because there have been real gems in the clubvids before, and loved it. i love the song and the energy of it (weddings are lovely in movies, i never been to one in real life but they are often so much positiv-ness in movies (at least when they are like end scene weddings and not murder at a wedding dissonance - and i love group dances!))
there are a lot of sources i dont regonice (but maybe i will try to check out some of them).
and as many others already said i would love to read the notes to this one day.
thanks for making and sharing this video!

Re: sending love

[seekingferret]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed! If you're curious about any of the sources you don't recognize, ask and I'll identify it for you.

I don't do tumblr, so I wonder if you could point me to the tumblr page you saw this on? I'm curious how it ended up there.

[walkthegale]

This is AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL and PERFECT and I am crying and now I have all of the feelings about Jewishness and Jewish characters and representation and positivity and joy and dancing and I DON'T KNOW WHAT DO DO WITH THEM ALL. Thank you so much for making this vid.

I would love to read all your many words about these many fandoms if and when you do want to post them!

[seekingferret]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed!

[marginaliana]

This was a real delight - it made me smile immensely.

[seekingferret]

Thank you!

[cinco]

This is so great! I am having all the feels. <3

[seekingferret]

Thank you!

[lokifan]

I wish you could've heard the squeaky noise I made when the music cut out on WILLOW AND TARA.

And omg. This is so joyful! I loved it. I can tell it has a bunch of ~things going on I'm not getting (commentary pls I'd read that so hard) but also it works anyway, and did the thing really well-cut multifandom vids do of both "ooh I should check that out" and "OMG IT'S THEM WITH THAT!"

[seekingferret]

Thanks!

[brainwane]

How lovely!

[seekingferret]

Thank you!

[china_shop]

This is just so incredibly great! *loves*

[seekingferret]

Thank you!

[opusculasedfera]

This is super charming and joyful and I loved it to pieces.

[seekingferret]

Thank you!

[seekingferret]

I'm delighted to hear that! This vid means so much to me, so I'm really glad to hear it's meaningful to others.

[alpheratz]

Hello!

We're excited to let you know that we are planning on showing your vid at the Con.Txt 2018 vid show. Con.Txt is a fan convention held in Washington, D.C. the weekend of July 27th through 29th. We're very excited to include this vid in the show!

Thanks,
Alpheratz and the vid show team

[seekingferret]

Thanks for letting me know!