They’re just the perfect metaphor for all our criminal desires and bad behavior:
First of all they are immortal. They are young and beautiful forever. The downside of that is that they have to drink the blood of innocent victims in order to maintain their youthful appearance and extraordinary powers. Know anyone like that?
By now I hope some of you have seen at least one of the Dark Path webisodes. I’m sitting here listening to Zombi and hoping that people will dig the music video format. I had a great time working with my music supervisor, Toddrick Spalding, listening to all kinds of cool stuff and trying to understand why some music supports the story and some music will fight the story and some music is just pure sensation that calls up imagery for me like dialing 911. (And of course some music is more like a stray cat that will go home with anyone.) I like to leave my music videos open to some interpretation, because music moves people in different ways and I’ve always thought that the images that accompany the music should allow the viewer some emotional and narrative leeway. So those of you who know my work, know that I revere ambivalence as the road to truth. (ha!) But I also love stories and Vampires in particular tend to have a lot of back story because of their age. So if you’re interested in histories of my vampires, read on.
Hi, I’m Mary Lambert. Some of you may be familiar with my classic videos for Madonna, Janet Jackson, Live, Motley Crue or others. I’ve directed 15 feature length films (Pet Sematary) and hundreds of music videos and recently I’ve been working with FEARnet on the webisodes for The Dark Path Chronicles. The Dark Path is a first of its kind sort of project, a hybrid way of telling a story that uses music as the underpinning for the narrative, as I’ve always tried to do in my videos.
