the gospel according to coldplay

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Saw a great presentation on Sunday from Dan: a mix of “Fix you” by Coldplay set against stills from ‘The Passion of the Christ’. It worked really well.

At the risk of pushing things too far, I think it fits in with the “art re-telling stories to an apologetic end”, as discussed in the previous post. Except maybe here it was “re-singing the song” and using images to re-interpret.

Also, although I loved it, I’d be interested to know how much it communicated to those who don’t know the significance of the ‘Passion’ events. That is, how much you had to know already to get the point. (Not saying that was a problem — just interested.) I guess this relates to the need to go right into the story of the people you are trying to talk to; to be fully ‘incarnated’. On the other hand, there are some things that can’t be expressed completely in any language and I guess sometimes you have to let extraordinary events speak for themselves.

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Permalink | September 7th, 2005

One Response to “the gospel according to coldplay”

  1. jonnyjpg Says:
    jonnyjpg September 8th, 2005 at 9:00 am

    that’s greay. re-mixing and sampling are also integral parts of the language and artistic language of our time. it all fits together so well.

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