AURORA - Nothing is Eternal (A Documentary)

Watch Nothing Is Eternal, The FADER’s Otherworldly Short Film About AURORA.

In Bergen, Norway, the pop artist shares the childhood secrets that helped to build her captivating musical world.

“Music is not something you should keep for yourself. It can’t be put in a cage, because it’s wild and alive.” So says AURORA, the 20-year-old Norwegian singer-songwriter behind fantastical, stampeding folk-pop songs like “Conqueror” and “Runaway.” AURORA’s music often looks at the everyday with a kind of wide-eyed wonder, and in this new documentary short Nothing Is Eternal — directed by Isaac Ravishankara, and produced by The FADER with YouTube Music — it’s plain to see that that this worldview is no performance. It’s simply how AURORA lives her life.

Following the artist from the bustling streets of New York to her rain-soaked hometown of Bergen, the film includes interviews with AURORA's closest friends, as well as uniquely stripped-back performances of tracks including “Warrior” and “Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1).” Whether she’s reminiscing on her childhood with her sisters, dancing through the city streets in her headphones, or discussing the secret life of apples, there’s a spellbinding quality to everything the artist does.

“When I first met you, I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a girl who’s magic,’” one of AURORA’s childhood friends remembers in a particularly endearing scene. The deeper this film goes into her lush and rose-tinted world, the harder it is to shake that feeling off.

http://www.thefader.com/2016/08/04/aurora-nothing-is-eternal-isaac-ravishankara

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Director: Isaac Ravishankara
Produced by: The FADER
Produced In Association With: Anchor Light Productions
Producer: Mai Fujiwara
Executive Producer: Joseph Patel
Executive Producers for YouTube Music: Marly Ellis, Grace Lee & Eshan Ponnadurai
Executive Producers for The FADER: Jon Cohen, Andy Cohn, Anthony Holland, Rob Stone
Cinematographer: Kevin Hayden
Editor: Sean Patrick Leonard
Assistant Camera: Chauncey Tanton
Field Producer: Johan Moen
VFX: Zak Stolz
Sound Design: Unbridled Sound
Color: Derek Hansen at The Mill

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Producers: Monica Benitez & Rob Semmer
Production Coordinator: Madison LaClair
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Editor-in -Chief: Naomi Zeichner
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Special Thanks: Geir Luedy, Per Mygland, Catherine Neumann-Fagereng, Rich Schaefer, Stephanie Shim

Hello?

Yeah are you here?

Growing up in Bergin has been like
the most beautiful gift I can ever get

I learned that you can create
this whole world by yourself

I guess you have the space to do it and that's so important

I've had a really special childhood with lots of magical happenings

And imagination above all

Apples are so magical

I believe every one has a secret wish hidden in them

And you have to wish it after taking a bite

The wonderful thing with making music with yourself is kind of

A way to stop time just in the moment

As I sit down and then you just play

I started writing melodies when I was 6 years old

And then the words came when I was 9

And after I discovered all of my greatest weapons in life, words

I never stopped

Music is not something you should keep from yourself

It can't be put in a cage

Because it's wild and alive

I have 2 sisters and they're both amazing creatures

Miranda.

That's me

And Victoria in the middle

Make-up artist and designer and me

Uh, yeah the first time I heard you sing was when you got that present from your friend

It was like uh a studio.

A session in the studio.

Yeah

You recorded one song.

And I don't think she knew how well she did

She was like oh, is this nice?

I was like Aurora what?

It's beautiful

We were always no eh worried about you

That you were gonna get bullied or picked on

Because you were so weird and you dressed so weird yeah

And we were so scared that it was going to be uh so tough on you

To go high school or one of these things

You were like no it's fine

But everybody loved you

These are some of my very very good friends

And I don't think I would've had so much fun in high school without them

I remember when I first met you I was like oh my g-d this girl is magic

I think we look very different then first impressions

Yeah hahaha

Let love conquer your mind

Going up?

Roria-roria.

A la tula.

Yeah.

And then lower es?

Even though you have so many fans and people say they love you

And have never met you it's really important to also have friends who

Actually know you and yeah know you as you not the artist

But we know you as you I know you as you

Let love conquer your mind

Warrior.

Warrior.

Just reach out for the light

Warrior.

Warrior.

I am high

This is Ivan.

She is one of the only people who knew me from when I was 6 years old

But also knows how it is being a bit more than just being a normal teenager I guess

I only think you've changed in that sense of course everyone changes

But I think the essence of you is still the same

And it just feels like you've grown into yourself

And just kind of figured out who you are

Do you feel like you're relaxed when you come
home or do you feel like you're constantly

Working?

Well I have ants in my feet that wants me
to go to the studio if I have a day off

Because I guess I feel like I have an opportunity
to make something new

You do a take and it's pitch perfect and you say no that wasn't really good

And we have to like yeah it was good

Like nah do it over again and we like ugh c'mon

You always seem to dance on the chairs

And now we have like 5 broken chairs in the studio

Which is really annoying

You're always moving in the studio though

Unless you're in like London or Berlin or
New York or LA somewhere cool

Not raining

I didn't travel much to big cities before
I was signed by my management

So music has basically taking me everywhere

The first time I went to a big city was a

Strange feeling of being in an ocean not really
knowing how to breathe or move

It was very inspiring as well because it was
a very different world

From the world I know

Do you believe in magic?

Yeah

5, 4, 3, 2, 1

5, 4, 3, 2, 1

He holds the gun against my head

I close my eyes and bang I'm dead

I know he knows that he's killing me for mercy

He holds my body in his arms

He didn't mean to do no harm

And he cries and cries

He did it all to spare me from the awful things in life that come

And he cries and cries

5, 4, 3, 2, 1

5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

5, 4, 3, 2, 1

The gun is gone and so am I

And here I go

I used to come to this island very often when I was a child

It's quite strange how nothing can remind
me more of how things have changed

It used to be a childhood place because everything
is the same

The trees and the smell and the silence but
the only thing that's different is

You and the way you see things and the way
you think

And just like in fiction and in every addiction

Of fantasies taking over and wake me

The more I travel around and live and the
more people I meet

You realize how nothing is eternal

Nothing to me

I thought I should make this video so my voice
could keep talking after I'm gone

About things that I think is important to remember

And the lovely people I met

And things I like

And places I find to be the most beautiful

So those things will be remembered

I've been looking for the only one

But you don't seem to come

My way

I feel ali-li-live

I feel ali-li-live

I feel ali-li-live

I feel ali-li-live