Revolutionary Girl Utena AMV - Labour (the cacophony) (Paris Paloma) [SPOILERS and seizure warning]

Once again, before anything else: SEIZURE WARNING for this AMV, with several sudden changes in brightness and flashing lights. Utena really isn't seizure-free :(

This video also contains classic Utena CW of fictional abusive relationships all over, here crystallized into music as the toxic inescapability of the heteropatriarchal system. Utena itself talks about that topic in really heavy ways; please be careful when watching.

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The song is Labour (version "the cacophony") by ‪@parispaloma‬, of which I learned about one week ago now and which I listened to an unhealthy amount since then.
You can listen to it here:    • Paris Paloma - LABOUR (the cacophony) [Off...  
And the original version here:    • Paris Paloma - labour [Official Video]  

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Welp, I did not plan on making yet another Utena AMV this soon. But just a week ago as of finishing this, a friend shared this song with me... and after a few days having it on loop and simply thinking how ouch it was, I was suddenly hit with the realization that HOLY MOLY THIS WOULD MAKE SOME INCREDIBLE UTENA CONTENT. I started thinking it out a little, and looked up if other people had had the same idea... and people sure did!

Here are the two other versions I watched at this start of my Labour AMV-making journey (please check them out! their creators found lots of clever line uses each, and a few inspired me more or less directly!):
   • Anthy Himemiya - labour (Revolutionary Gir...   by ‪@SepiaMeteoriteAMVs‬
   • Revolutionary Girl Utena AMV - Labour [fla...   by ‪@SunnytheSassy637‬
(extra thanks to Lujan for a comment giving me additional motivation about putting my own spin on this! It's always a bit scary to do something that you feel like other people did before and it's always a very sweet reminder that no two artistic projects are entirely alike even when starting from similar ideas. It's always something that's very clear to me as an audience but absolutely impossible to drill into my brain when I actually make things.. :'))

So, anyway, as I watched their takes on this song, I was simultaneously blown away by their good ideas of framing this or that part of the song a certain way... and at the same time, I was like, hey, I would have put that moment here! And I notably realized how eager I was to use THE MOVIE for this.

When I unlocked this idea, I immediately had a flurry of thoughts about which parts of the movie to use, and so on Monday evening I started loosely storyboarding this with vague notes for the various moments of both series and movie I'd put where.
Cut to now at the end of the week, with most of my waking thoughts and free time dedicated to making this because it quickly turned into an obsession, and here we are. I'm really proud of this; notably the very first parts that came into existence, the one with the Utena-Anthy hands stretching series/movie parallel that turns into a car- and paintings-themed chorus; and the final chorus, of course. Once I sketched these two, my brain absolutely refused to let go until I got it all done, because that felt too powerful to be left unfinished.

Anyway, if you're looking for more Utena content, here are the other two AMVs I have made about it so far:
   • Revolutionary Girl Utena AMV - Can't Have ...  
   • Revolutionary Girl Utena AMV - Maybe (Flow...  
(I have for now unlisted the second one because it is extremely bleak - it is about the impossibility of escaping abusive relationships in much greater details, and it feels much less empowering and more suffocating than the other and the present one, and-- yeah, I don't want you to watch it if you're not ready for that.)

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As always, I own neither the images nor the music used in this Anime Music Video, which belong to their respective owners. This video is made for a non-profit purpose. Do not hesitate to contact me in case of any copyright-related problem: this video has mere recreational purpose.