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325:, but was waiting for the right occasion. Until then, she had been collecting them and wanted to write her own songs in them. According to her, the music box company were not very excited in the beginning. "They'd made wooden boxes for eons and I wanted see-through plexiglass. They couldn't get their head round it - they were like 'Why?' They wanted to make the plonky sound softer with wood but I wanted it as hard as possible, like it was frozen. In the end, they said it was the best thing they'd ever done". Björk then featured the music box into the song's composition. The song is written and recorded in 428:
focus on a wide-angle lens. A nurse and piercing unit were on hand, but no thimble, so the bleeding most often came from cast girls' thumbs as they pushed the needles in. "It was one of the most difficult things I've ever filmed because I felt I was on the verge of throwing up. I liked to actually only watch it by the video monitor rather than with my eyes as it were because it was just too much", Chaudoir said. Björk also pierced her own ear at the shoot, but all other piercings were the cast girls'. Knight gave Björk a Sony Mini DV camera and asked her to shoot her own private scenes.
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work were not involved, Chaudoir did not use diffusion or consulted with post-production, and he arrived with only a few assistants—a gaffer, loader, grip, focus puller, and some electricians. "Basically what I was asked to do and what I thought I'd be able to do is more or less there. It would have
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Five young women who were into subculture and piercings were cast for the video. Knight directed Chaudoir to shoot the piercings by placing the Sony Mini DV camera on the women's bodies - mostly chests, arms, and shoulders - and getting as physically near as he could while maintaining a close, macro
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Tired of music videos which featured the singer looking to the camera and lip-synching throughout, Chaudoir suggested having Björk lip-synch and look into the camera only for some of the last lines. He also suggested using a track so they could move closer to her as she sings these lines or move
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The video had three stages of shooting: A video-shoot of piercings, a private video-shoot handled by Björk, and a film-shoot of Björk. The piercings video and film-shoot were done in a day in June 2001 in Knight's studio in London. The sole light source was diffused sunlight shining through the
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ceiling windows of the second floor daylight studio. This studio gave a "northlight" look and had a rawness to it that matched the subject matter, photography director Simon Chaudoir said.
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closer before she sings them—"so it's like a reveal of her", he said. There was no script, so some improvisation made it to the final cut. Since blue-screening and
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benefited from being simplified down to a much more bold and direct visualization of what she was trying to do. I think we were too subtle in that", Knight said.
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in a presentation of the "20 Most Controversial Music Videos". The music video was placed sixth on the "20 Of The Most Controversial Music Videos Ever" list by
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said, "In 'Pagan Poetry', she deploys the implied heaven of Zeena Parkins harp and a flotilla of music boxes with an Asian-teahouse touch."
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said of "Pagan Poetry" that it "shares a spacious serenity with the album's quietest moments" and included this song as a track pick.
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said "'Pagan Poetry' sounds like the prelude to a particularly exotic sexual interlude." Saul Campbell from
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in 2015. It was sold as part of Kerry Taylor Auctions "Passion for Fashion" sale in London, in June 2016.
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Björk wearing an in-body-pierced-wedding dress designed by English fashion designer
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placed the song at number 227 on its list of "The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s."
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in the United States, but was eventually shown in unedited form on
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The Light of Love – The making of the Pagan Poetry video
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magazine called the track "terrifying" and an album standout.
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with a Greenland women's choir, harpist, and electronica duo
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the sixth best music video by Björk. The dress was shown in
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Index


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summarize
provide an accessible overview

Single
Björk
Vespertine
B-side
Genre
Art pop
dark wave
baroque pop
Label
One Little Indian
Polydor
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Marius de Vries
Björk
Hidden Place
Cocoon
Björk
Vespertine
One Little Indian Records
music boxes
C sharp minor
AllMusic
Rolling Stone
Blender

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