Video Analysis

I decided to do the song Untitled #1 or Vaka as my video analysis. This song was named after the drummer step daughter. I chose this video because I find that it has a great deal of symbolism. In my opinion this video is meant to represent nuclear Apocalypse or atomic war. There are a few symbols that would give me reason to believe this. The first symbol was the faculty of the school inspecting their ears and mouths and then the children getting ready with many layers of clothing along with ominous gas masks. This symbolizes the getting ready for war. When the children get to the "playground" it is covered in black ash and it is falling form the sky like snow. This is also a sign of an atomic bomb. They play in the ash as if it were snow. They then begin rough housing and pushing each other around. They push this one girl whose gas mask comes off. She falls to the ground and the other children come together around her as she slowly closes her eyes. I felt that this video was extremely impacting and a good way of getting a point across.