I think Tomiko Van may gaze out with a business-like expression more attractively than anyone else, owing to her nose. This new video is very gorgeous. Mostly it's excessive, the light-saturation, the low shots in the glowing grass, the indispensible breezes and so on. All told it's a very tactile video. The way the cam is always moving through things, or light is moving almost through her, is much like touch, an elaborating touch even, a feeling-out... But that's just the air's movement and her movement and the camera's movement commingling; they inevitably make some kind of a lather.

















Here it's turned in and tilted but she has a very sleek profile, aquiline, raptor-esque, or rather like a falcon's. Even in an absolutely perpendicular profile all eyes real and imaginary parallel it is uncommonly lovely; any more aerodynamic and it would seem abhuman, certainly not feminine, but as it is it's just superb.

Something savage perhaps? Especially that one part where it's shining under her throat and she almost disappears--it's implicitly pretty violent. But the ending is just sad. Her mouth opens -> white flash -> long shot: play of wind/light both in the face-to-face and the afar. It's not austere, not an erasure; it's a bereavement. Truer to the nature of loss and sadness, that 'something' in you doesn't abscond and vanish; it just turns deepeningly untouchable.