Special Interests Documentary: ZSS
Not really familiar with the project and by the end of the video I didn't got many insight of it, seems like a missed opportunity and I hope with time SI does something more in depth and thoughful (both in content and technique). It's basically a long interview interspersed with some images and two or three live excerpts, the lack of any onscreen info about who is talking, what is being shown (album artwrk, cover, date, place) etc bothers me a little but the oldschool film video filter bothers even more, gives it a very (negative) amateur aspect to it all, the location of the interview doesn't helps (the beige wall background, maybe just make it b&w then?).
In the end what bugs me the most is that the interview is made of mostly "the guy from ZSS" kind of explaining/validating the imagery used on the project, something that was already said in the first two minutes of the video, then just dragged on an on, with the musical/audio aspects representing less than 5% of the content, and it's sad that by the end, in the final couple of minutes (after the interesting if shallow talking about the live act with the bike and video) things get way more interesting because he starts to talk about his project on a more personal take instead of trying to put it in perspective, and with some focus on more interesting questions it could be very nice because he seems articulated enough to say more than the blanket statements that the interviewer seemed to ask of him, like in parts when he mentions "detachment" with the material of some power electronic acts and other hints of deeper thoughts. As it is everything seems muddled. Here's for hoping this series of interviews get closer to the documentary "format" and add more background information as well as some editing of redundancy and more meaty interview questions.
