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Four festivids for me this year? FOUR? All PERFECTION? I am completely overcome, I've done nothing all morning except watch them over and over.

Three of them are Hotel del Luna vids, each stunningly glorious perfection in its own way: "twice as tragedy and once as farce," is what I said to

genarti this morning once I'd woken her up and demanded she allow me to screen my bounty for her.

Diamond focuses on the tragedy of Jang Man-Wol and her 1300 years of attempting to get revenge or otherwise work through it (badly!); it is gorgeous with knife-sharp editing and, also, coincidentally, many knives!

Aren't Captives is a really beautiful spoken-word poetry vid about one of my favorite B-plots, in which two teen ghosts (one of whom has come into permanent possession of a living body) fall in love, and is exactly as haunting in every respect as it should be.

Both of these are extremely beautiful vids that are very much about grief and loss; as a palate-cleaner, there is also:

Motel 6, a series of advertisements for our favorite ghost hotel that is one of the most galaxy brain things I've ever seen, I too felt like I was ascending to another plane every time I got hit with another perfect joke or incredible shot of someone doing the OK-hand.

In addition to these HDL riches, I also received a vid for Jumanji (1995):

Still Beating, a vid that looks at this nonsense children's movie replete with 90s special effects and pulls out of it exactly the heartwrenching second-chance story that has had me completely fucked up about Jumanji-of-all-things since I was ten years old.

And now it is nine in the evening and I've spent almost the entire day just freewheeling back and forth between Hotel del Luna feelings and Jumanji feelings. Thank you, mystery vidders, I'm so delighted!