The short music video 'Think About Me', directed by Júlia Caroline Silva to the gloomy yet heart-wrenchingly touching song by Korbinian Friedl, is a lyrical reflection on love, remembrance, and post-emotional state. Within several minutes, the video is able to capture the entire existence of a failed romance, the one that was true, bare, and brilliant, but could have never been meant to be.

The premise of 'Think About Me' is a basic, but gut-wrenching one: two individuals, knowing full well their love has an expiration date, decide to jump into it headfirst. The video gets its poignancy because of that conscious acceptance of impermanence. It is not a break up story. It is a funeral song of a beautiful thing which could not live.

The way that Silva directs the film is superb in contrasting warmth and coldness, both physically and emotionally. The sex scenes between Korbi and his love interest are filmed in golden colors, with a lot of soft light and natural intimacy. These are not mere memories, they are relics of the past when the world seemed to be a safe place due to love. These inside clips provide the spectator with sun-drenched shots are selective and isolating.

 

Loneliness cannot be acted, it is meditated. He is not lamenting the passing so much as he is privately running through the highlights, torn between appreciating and mourning. But what is particularly remarkable is that the video does not in any way dramatize the pain. No sweeping romances, no display of nervous collapse.