A visual treat with the music video by Kanye West performing POWER. Whether you like him or not the on screen image is captivating although I still need to read more regarding the meaning behind the images. For now read the notes below to give you an idea.
The one-take "Power" video starts with a stylized shot of a dark-clad West with glowing eyes, surrounded by pillars and wearing a 15-pound Horus piece around his neck. The camera pulls back to reveal the rapper on a living canvas, surrounded by mythological chaos: angels and nymphs cavort around him, levitating servants pour water upside-down onto their faces, two sword-swinging goons come flying at each other in slow-mo, and a giant sword threads through a halo above West's head.
Marco Brambilla, who directed the video, recently told Vulture that the theme of "Power" was a fall from grace; a visual metaphor for his high-profile plummet last year after stealing the mic from Taylor Swift at the VMAs.
"It visualizes power, and him as the icon as power," said the director, who West hand-picked after seeing his "Civilization" installation at the Standard Hotel. "At the end of the piece it challenges the power that I set up at the beginning. It's an elliptical piece of storytelling."
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