Like most work connected to MONEY, “Nijinsky and Diaghilev in St. Petersburg December” shows up without much more than a quote (“Death is just an illusion – a high wall. It is not the end. There is no such thing as ‘the end’. It is the beginning.”), under what’s presumably another alias (KRAKEN), in a video-only state which somehow succeeds in pulling threads of isolation and tragedy using little more than untreated, re-purposed movie clips, and a piano. There’s always a few gaps left to be filled, like how “the greatest male ballet dancer of the 20th century” who eventually spiraled into schizophrenia, Vaslav Nijinsky, and his lover whose fear of the sea contributed to their relationship’s demise, Sergei Diaghilev, conceptually interact in the mix. But that’s the beauty of it.
And while we’re on the KRAKEN channel: