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SILENT ALL THESE YEARS, directed by photographer Cindy Palmano, was the first video of Tori's solo career. Tori and Cindy worked together very closely to create the beautifully stirring video for Silent All These Years. This was Cindy's first venture into moving pictures, having been primarily a still photographer before this project, and her approach resulted in a breathtaking vision of the emotions inherent in the song. Citing her as one of the most important influences in her life, Tori says "Cindy helped to put my vision out to the world, and without her it would never have been interpreted the way that it was. She has such a pure eye that she was able to go in there and capture my soul on film." In March 1992, MTV broadcasted a "New Artist Spotlight" and tagged the Silent All These Years video a "Buzz Clip."
Tori was nominated at the 1992 MTV Awards for Breakthrough Video, Best Cinematography, and Best Female Video with this video. Silent All These Years was also voted number 98 of the Top 100 videos of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
"Yeah, the big boots. Cindy found them and brought them to the set. They came and went really quick."
-- Tori; Shuz Magazine, Spring 2000
"Shooting time, we shot over two days. Preparation time I suppose was about two weeks. Conceptual time... I don't know, it's hard to tell actually because I wasn't only working on that project...I'll tell you where the crate came from. What I make as part of a picture always is relevant. It's never there without having had a thought process behind it and around it or explored, because that's the way I work. The box wasn't there just because it was a box. I had the box made specifically because it was a simplification of the idea of Alice In Wonderland. Tori was de-scaled, hence the tiny piano, too....one thing I wanted to do in "Silent All These Years" which she absolutely refused was that I wanted to smash a piano up and feed it through a square hold and she said, "No, I can't do that to a piano. It's like killing an animal." She just couldn't handle it at all....They [the balloons in the video] obviously have to do with women. (laughs) There was a male image, but we just didn't have time to put it in. It was a bunsen burner with a test tube was bubbling and bubbling until it overflowed. It was a brilliant image, but there just wasn't time. It would have appeared in the bank of images in that part of the video. It has a modern look, very clean."
-- Cindy Palmano; Really Deep Thoughts Fanzine, Issue #4
Silent All These Years was released in collectible form in the Little Earthquakes Video and the Tori Amos Video Compilation.
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