There are two titles for this short experimental film of almost three minutes. “Journeyman” refers to the song that is underlayed to the video and “Overdosed Nightmare”, which is the title of a feature film Khavn produced in 2008, and describes the experience the viewer has with the video quite precisely.
For his music video, Khavn has combined scenes and fragments from several of his short films. Recognizable, for example, are scenes from “Pushcart Family” in which a man pulls his sales cart through the busy streets or from “Christmas Alms” in which children ask for alms. In between, you see black and white pictures of a Jesus or a hanged man. A landscape with a satellite is recognizable and a man with long hair sits somewhere at a bar and talks to the beer bottle standing in front of him.
The video resembles a colorful kaleidoscope, the pictures follow each other in a fast rhythm. Khavn does not care that different formats come together in the process. Whether it's a picture filling the screen, one with a black border or an extreme landscape format, everything is there. The dynamic created by the rapid editing does not disturb, on the contrary, an astonishingly uniform picture is created.
The song that accompanies the pictures is stirring and suggestive. One almost regrets that it is only three minutes long. Khavn has created a video for his composition that is varied, shrill and spirited. It sounds like a dream, wild and allusive – or as already mentioned, reminiscent of an overdosed nightmare.
