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"True to Life" UNofficial Music Video

A fan's homage to Roxy Music. I’ve always loved this song from Roxy’s "Avalon" album. The general vibe of world-weariness, yet being a slave to beauty, is a perennial one with this band. This particular track has a hypnotic groove that never ceases to get me swaying if I listen for more than a minute. This AI video is loose and allusive in structure. Many of the images relate to each other but in a conceptual not narrative way. The themes are transformation, beauty, and artistic representation, with implications for how men and women are seen. Many of the images are references to classical mythology, including Apollo and Daphne, Artemis and Actaeon, Pygmalion and Galatea, Laocoon, Narcissus, Cupid and Psyche, the apple of Paris, the Cretan Bull, and others. But I didn’t restrict the style to any one era—there are also allusions to Victorian art and stories such as "Picture of Dorian Gray" (beauty and representation again), and even a couple of modern-inspired images like Maya Deren’s "Meshes in the Afternoon", Fellini, and Bunuelian surrealism. I want the themes to come across as classic but not necessarily confined to a particular time. On another level, the video alludes to imagery associated with Roxy Music itself, their general aesthetic and album covers. I made it with AI, but that doesn’t mean it came easy. All the images took endless iterations to get them close to what I intended. All of them are the result of conscious design, down to small details like the color of Athena’s eyes. Some shots are adapted from IRL photo shoots I’ve done, but even those required a lot of adjusting to get them to work. In terms of time, I would say this project took longer than the total preparation (scripting, budgeting, casting and rehearsing) that went into short videos I’ve made with traditional production. Not sure I would put myself thru it again soon, at least until the technology improves.