“Wrap me up in this cocoon
unravelling the truth
All of this time,
I understand why…”
 
Catherine Pockson hypnotizes you.
 
Her voice, the way she moves like a wave followed, contrasted by her long hair and her face, ethereal and dramatic at the same time, make Catherine as fascinating as so distant and abstract.
 
Ryan Hope knows it and makes her the video’s central figure: both protagonist and environment, where only a few seconds are left to her bandmate in Alpines, Bob Matthews, whose appearances are a mix of 80’s video reminiscents and fashion shots.
Fashion is perhaps the other real star: Hope turns Pockson with different clothes, makeup and haircut carrying her from elegant simplicity to Baroque choices that seem to remember Aronofsky’s Black Swan.
 
The Pockson’s dance is broken by the temporal jump cuts of Hope and post-production effects of the image (like Solarisation) that occur as lightning creating an interesting contrast like a wave that breaks on the rocks.
 
What is missing in Ryan Hope, however, is a certain amount of courage: he seems to fear that no one else see the visual power that is in Catherine. So slowly the visual effects, that at first emphasize the singer, become dominant and the intensity dissolves itself in favor of a greater variety, as well as the elliptical mounting is enriched with split screen and all these finally reduce Pockson in dust, metaphorically and not.