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This is a video I created using 15 second jpeg movies from my old point and shoot camera, pieced together in AfterEffects. It was shot around my old home in Woodstock partly on foot, on bike, leaning out of the window of a car, and on the train traveling from Poughkeepsie to NYC.

This one means a lot to me for very personal reasons. Hope you enjoy it.

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  • lee fleming 1 year ago
    love it, just love it. means more to me than I can possibly describe.
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  • Marco Raaphorst 1 year ago
    a classic!
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  • Johan Ismael 1 year ago
    amazing video for an amazing song...thank you fredo, you made my day a better one !
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  • Szymon Gdowicz 10 months ago
    caliming
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  • Alex Itin plus 10 months ago
    Yes I remember this from a while back... nice to see that you are exploring the medium further.
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  • astrid mayer 8 months ago
    Wow. You connect something very emotional to your music and pictures, great; go on like this
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  • Javi Devitt 6 months ago
    I saw it in rest fest years ago, amazing!
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  • FatCat Films plus 6 months ago
    Fredo Viola by The Art Pack, un reportage vidéo tourné à Paris qui illustre un personnage incroyable.

    Regardez : dailymotion.com/video/x97efv_the-art-pack-fredo-viola-in-paris_music
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  • Hyun De Grande 6 months ago
    Wow! I really love it!
    Great deal of emotion in this piece!
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  • patricia rombauer 6 months ago
    muito legal! I love it!
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  • susan preston 6 months ago
    fabulous! it might be sad, but the piece is joyful too.

    banjobunny.com
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  • marta m. m. dymek 5 months ago
    this is probably the most beautiful thing i've seen all week. and coincidentally, i've seen a lot of beautiful things this week.
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  • Artjom Bagri 5 months ago
    amazing... just amazing...
    feels like somethink different of world of music. It is High!
    Can you share the lyrics... for better understanding?
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  • jake 5 months ago
    gorgeous. o.o wow!
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  • Adam C Sager plus 5 months ago
    I've always loved this video!! This was (unquestionably) the inspiration for a project I made back in college, using a lot of your methods. vimeo.com/4997069
  • Fredo Viola plus 5 months ago
    Hey Adam... wow, watching your video was super strange. I noticed a lot of the patterns that I had created for Sad Song in there, but I really like what you did with the criss-crossing lines. Also watched your reel... great work, man!
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  • Jason Mongue 4 months ago
    You are an outrageously inventive and creative person. I really admire that. Thank you for sharing your gift.
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  • MUZIEKTELEVISIE plus 3 months ago
    I like how you used such lo-fi material to create something so technically stunning. I guess the lo-fi material actually forced you to use a 5 splitscreen. Fantastic!
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  • Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. staff 3 months ago
    oh man i loved this video i saw it a bit ago, good to see it on vimeo.
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  • Fredo Viola plus 3 months ago
    Thanks Karen! There's a live version I did in an octagon/circle up there. Take a look/listen! :)
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  • graham ross 3 months ago
    That was beautiful - thank you so much.
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  • Evan 3 months ago
    beautiful, very artistic.
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  • Benjamin Dowie 3 months ago
    Flatout awesome
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  • Ray Anderson 3 months ago
    That's such a fine piece of work, Fredo. I've traveled that route along the river from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan many times, but now in my mind's eye I'll always see it as you saw it. Fine, simply fine.
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  • baaron 3 months ago
    Just what my heart needed.
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  • Tom Ross 3 months ago
    Wow, love the video, love the song even more.
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  • yumiko 3 months ago
    welcame my vimeo
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  • Matthew Brown plus 3 months ago
    You make me cry, haha. I wish I could use your music in my videos. You hit every precise emotional chord, and I love you for it!
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  • Craig Litten 3 months ago
    This is PURE beauty, pure ART. Thank you for sharing this with the world!
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  • Simona Minniti 3 months ago
    thank you for all of your work!
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  • moninxu 3 months ago
    It's amazing! - thank you so much
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  • zhushuicaoerju 3 months ago
    love it!very beautiful,both the music and the pictures!
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  • Michael Made 3 months ago
    Great job, I love it!
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  • Nacho el Nacho 3 months ago
    Awesome composition. Thanks
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  • Johannes Courtens 3 months ago
    Wow, very beautiful!
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  • trev 3 months ago
    I am speechless! Gorgeousness right through the center of me!
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  • Mukesh Gandhi 3 months ago
    well done... good visulization !!
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  • Rudy Manning 3 months ago
    Wow...love that song...
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  • Jake Osborne 3 months ago
    This is something really special..
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  • Phil Rennie 3 months ago
    The tune is really gorgeous, and the video a perfect complement to the layering in the music.
    A sad song to make you feel warm inside.
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  • Steve Franklin 3 months ago
    Absolutely amazing. A stunningly well composed song, and great imagery from jpeg movie clips!!
    I've got goose pimples now!;-)
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  • Fredo Viola plus 3 months ago
    Thanks folks. I really appreciate all the encouragement! :) As I've mentioned, there's a live version I did called The Sad Song di Bra. It's an octagon shape in a circle. You can watch it here, but it's best to view on my interactive website where the video can be turned. theturn.tv It's the dark circle there.
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  • ZaidSalihin 3 months ago
    Wow! Just beautiful!
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  • Morris 3 months ago
    wow this is amazing!
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  • retro 3 months ago
    nice video!
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  • b2clover 3 months ago
    nice song! just to relax...
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  • eucalyptus plus 3 months ago
    so good! so beautiful!
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  • Linard 3 months ago
    this is great!
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  • Franc L 3 months ago
    sound kinda like religious praise songs to me. ..is that good/bad?
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  • Fredo Viola plus 3 months ago
    The song was written after the death of my father, which is why I called it the Sad Song. Actually, it was a kind of ritual to bring my emotions up. Perhaps that's why it sounds "religious" to you, Franc L. I'm not religious myself, nor do I consider this song a "religious praise" song! But generally I do bow to the power of music. :)
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  • Marcela Armadillo 3 months ago
    Es un gusto poder disfrutar de tu obra. Transparente y revitalizadora. Pudiera ser una pieza muchísimo más larga, para terminar de respirar con ella. Gracias.
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  • Sterling Sellman 3 months ago
    Very cool!
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  • molly watt-stokes 3 months ago
    oh so powerful due to you and your intention, very successful and meaningful, thank you
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  • Sai Sivanesan 3 months ago
    amazing. just amazing.
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  • Steve Wachner 3 months ago
    I like that Vimeo Staff made this jump so much in such a little time. It went from 17 views to almost 3,000 in two days!

    Wish they would do that for one of my videos... but apparently they have to be GOOD
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  • Marc Haumann 3 months ago
    A beautifully fitting, innovative marriage of sight and sound. I wonder, though, why you use 'sad' in the title - the song feels more uplifting to me than anything else!
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  • Fredo Viola plus 3 months ago
    I'm glad you feel that way, Marc. It's called The Sad Song because it was finished after the death of my father.
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  • andreaswiss 3 months ago
    I'm love it! It's amazing !
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  • Roc Tsing 3 months ago
    Really good!
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  • David Klaeboe 3 months ago
    I really enjoyed it and watched it a few times. A great use of both hemispheres of your brain.
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  • Nicola De Prato 3 months ago
    nice job!
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  • Vicki Hurst 3 months ago
    soul stirring
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  • Hughes Hall plus 3 months ago
    Very, very beautiful.
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  • Christine Felix Pereira 3 months ago
    breath taking! so packed with wonderful ideas :)
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  • Jose-Manuel Salas 3 months ago
    Nice job, I love it.
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  • Leonard Norbert 3 months ago
    Fantastic. This is one of the most intersting and beautiful things I've seen and heard in a long time.
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  • Sean Higgins 3 months ago
    Like the fella said-Incroyable.I could loop this for hours.dramatic use of video with a song that is a classic. song has a native American feel- cadence and use of soloist.very spiritual and moving
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  • Ginger 3 months ago
    Your voice is used to beautiful effect. This is heavenly.
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  • Jonathan Levy plus 2 months ago
    Symply Beautifull
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  • Rafael Hansen 1 month ago
    Beautiful video with such an spiritual-touching song. Luvd it
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  • Roger 27 days ago
    There is something about this song that is pure magic. Thanks.
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