Desiring The Desire

NOÉMI BÜCHI - DESIRING THE DESIRE - VIDEO by BRIGITTE FÄSSLER.
Swiss film director and artist Brigitte Fässler presents a study of movement and materiality for Noémi Büchi’s newest album ‘Does It Still Matter’ (-OUS; May 24, 2024).
At a time when  categories  are  melting  away  and  musical  forms  are  being  redefined,  Noémi  Büchi's music video for ‘Desiring The Desire’ manifests itself as a sensual reflection on materiality and the ephemerality of being. 

The  video  is  an  interplay  of  blurriness  and  clarity,  of  stillness  and  movement,  an  expression  of  the ‘uncategorisable'  that  transcends  genre  boundaries  and  at  the  same  time  reveals  a  profound  inner world.  «Every  gesture,  every  captured  gaze  seizes  the  paradox  of  existence  -  the  simultaneous presence and absence, the here and now as well as the both/and.», Fässler explains. Serving  as  a  visual  expansion  of  Büchi's  musical  world,  the  video  forces  the  viewer  to  surrender  to the  flow  of  the  moment,  in  which  each  frame  is  a  work  of  art  in  its  own  right,  characterised  by  the maxim of avant-gardism that Büchi follows so passionately. There is no clear narrative structure, but rather  an  assemblage  of  snapshots  that  invites  the  viewer  to  embrace  the  ephemeral  while  re-evaluating the meaning of sound and time. What does desire matter? Fässler and Büchi leave us with a sonorous meditation that is as fleeting as it is enduring.