Housing Day videos are seldom described as adrenaline-inducing or action-packed, but Housing Day videos are rarely Cabot’s 2014 Housing Day video. In fact, the Crimson Arts Board’s careful research suggests that this overlap has only occurred once. The Cabot residents twirling and flying through the air move with all the same grace and most of the lethality of the bullets in John Woo’s films. The pristine yet organic choreography of Woo’s gunmen sashaying through gunpowder smoke is still alive and well in the high kicks and twirls of these dancing Cabotois. In this video, Cabot has shown that the smooth tracking shots that seem to last for days and sweeping exterior shots are no longer solely the stuff of ambitious VES concentrators.
The deliberate pacing and sudden disarming violence of Woo’s “The Killer” evokes the alternately serene and frenetic pacing of Cabot’s creation:
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