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8 | Natalie Fritz and Anna-Katharina Höpflinger www.jrfm.eu 2020, 6/2, 7–20 Fig. 1: The veiled women. Music video still from Big God, Florence + The Machine, 00:00:04. Fig. 2: The women lift their hands, perhaps in an act of adoration. Music video still from Big God, Florence + The Machine, 00:00:14. Motionless and colourful, a number of women stand in a black void, their reflections appearing in the water at their feet (fig. 1). All but the woman in the centre are veiled in transparent chiffon; the unveiled woman wears a nude-coloured silk dressing gown and underwear. We hear the howling of the wind, then percussion; a piano tune starts as the camera continues to zoom in. The women begin to move their hands towards the black sky (or heaven?) but then let them sink down onto their foreheads in a position of despair (fig. 2).