A short video about life, love, loss, and redemption that will completely unravel you.
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Have you ever watched someone you love disappear before your eyes? Or come undone at just the thought of losing that person? Have you held someone old with tight, trembling fingers, unable to stop them from slipping away forever, or held someone new with gentle, tentative hands, unable to speak as you marvel at their first day on earth? Life is a cycle of taking and giving, of dying and living, of going and coming, of ending and beginning.
In this music video for the British Band James‘s single, “Moving On,” director Ainslie Henderson uses a ball of yarn to literally tug at our heartstrings. Watch as its configurations skillfully weave us through the full range of emotions we experience from birth to death and remind us of the ultimate power of love and connection.
My friend and fellow Good Men Project contributor Edie Weinstein was also moved to write a lovely piece about this video.
Photo—Ainslie Henderson/Vimeo
Heart wrenching because I think about death and loss all the time.
At the same moment the song makes me smile.