Prompted to collaborate at Embodying the Video Essay on an “unvoiceover,” I asked Hoang Nguyen and Will DiGravio to hum a portion of Madonna’s “Hung Up” and then added my own humming to have a third sonic layer. The already startling beauty of this scene from a “Starsky & Hutch” episode, which recalls Josef von Sternberg in its visual texture and abstracted proximity, takes on an eerie and even dissonant quality in combination with the humming. The sound and image don’t fully sync up, yet echo each other. That echo is uncannily embodied when the laughter occurs, as if there is an unseen presence not meant to be in the scene.