Recycle/Reusable Humans
Full video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uqnMdH6TJs
My video art project “Recycle-Reusable Humans”, is being divided in three parts.
• Being Disposable
• Damage/Erasing
• Repair/Customization
Part I Being Disposable
In the first part I wanted the viewer to realize himself, his mortality/humanity. We are machines, we are movement, we are breathe. I have chosen close ups of my own brother but didn't emphasize in specific details in his appearance as I intended it to be as neutral as possible in order for the audience to be able to sense and see or reflect his own image. He is representing a human being in the verge of change. A moment before the final step. Is it an awakening? Is it a death? Are all these things really happening or is it an experience outside someone’s body/mind? My android wakes up-even though he isn't asleep, wears his eyes, breaths and is ready to see his whole life passing through his eyes.
Part II Damage/Erasing
In the second part, I wanted to portray the pain and the fear. I am showing my mother who could represent the general notion of a mother figure either this refers to a human mother, to our society, or even a “Pygmalion” that cuts meticulously the past and the parts that need to be changed. It is very painful but there is no rush. We see how she is simultaneously completely aware absolutely ruthless of what she is preparing. A choice has been taken. She has to cut all of the meat that lays in front of her. In the meantime the viewer sees close-ups of her faceless face and flashbacks of pain, anguish, suffering, a path through fire, rebirth. She is staring at the camera and the camera is staring back at her, or at us no matter how much we want to hide. Everything is visible. The cuts are becoming faster as we are erasing the data. I used scenes from my previous project “Psychosis” as part of the memories-trauma that are being erased. Alongside with our memories aren't we all deleting a part of who we have become?
Part III Repair/Customization
In the last part we get glimpses of the parts that have been reconnected, the android-human of the first part has been recreated. It was a new form. Every individual gets to decide what form is that. Is it the blue, the red or the yellow one? The customization is up to what each and every one of us wants to become. After we have survived the previous mutilation. An identity has to be chosen either wise there is the white void that surround us. The white cables represent the truth of what really is happening. Not the fabricated colored one. It represents the real truths that we have inside us. We are allured to these truths like moths to the light. The big truths that swallow us whole and sometimes drive us straight into madness because we cannot handle them. The last part ends abruptly because the recording had to be stopped there. That was what was needed to be seen.
• Being Disposable
• Damage/Erasing
• Repair/Customization
Part I Being Disposable
In the first part I wanted the viewer to realize himself, his mortality/humanity. We are machines, we are movement, we are breathe. I have chosen close ups of my own brother but didn't emphasize in specific details in his appearance as I intended it to be as neutral as possible in order for the audience to be able to sense and see or reflect his own image. He is representing a human being in the verge of change. A moment before the final step. Is it an awakening? Is it a death? Are all these things really happening or is it an experience outside someone’s body/mind? My android wakes up-even though he isn't asleep, wears his eyes, breaths and is ready to see his whole life passing through his eyes.
Part II Damage/Erasing
In the second part, I wanted to portray the pain and the fear. I am showing my mother who could represent the general notion of a mother figure either this refers to a human mother, to our society, or even a “Pygmalion” that cuts meticulously the past and the parts that need to be changed. It is very painful but there is no rush. We see how she is simultaneously completely aware absolutely ruthless of what she is preparing. A choice has been taken. She has to cut all of the meat that lays in front of her. In the meantime the viewer sees close-ups of her faceless face and flashbacks of pain, anguish, suffering, a path through fire, rebirth. She is staring at the camera and the camera is staring back at her, or at us no matter how much we want to hide. Everything is visible. The cuts are becoming faster as we are erasing the data. I used scenes from my previous project “Psychosis” as part of the memories-trauma that are being erased. Alongside with our memories aren't we all deleting a part of who we have become?
Part III Repair/Customization
In the last part we get glimpses of the parts that have been reconnected, the android-human of the first part has been recreated. It was a new form. Every individual gets to decide what form is that. Is it the blue, the red or the yellow one? The customization is up to what each and every one of us wants to become. After we have survived the previous mutilation. An identity has to be chosen either wise there is the white void that surround us. The white cables represent the truth of what really is happening. Not the fabricated colored one. It represents the real truths that we have inside us. We are allured to these truths like moths to the light. The big truths that swallow us whole and sometimes drive us straight into madness because we cannot handle them. The last part ends abruptly because the recording had to be stopped there. That was what was needed to be seen.
