EXPERIMENTAL
Fly
Recorded (with my smartphone) with my 6-month-old in my arms. We had a moment. The song was recorded in 2008 in Denmark. |
The Point is a simple stop-motion animation inspired by questions made by “sort of agnostic Christians”. Though the piece is black and white, there are no black and white answers to the questions. Still, there are hints, and there is music.
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Dialectic Oneness
A Self-Portrait. Based on the question “is there such a thing as self?” is a yearning for personal meaning. Attached to this initial question are many hypothesis which show self as being plural since conception, be it physiological since its formation in the womb, be it spiritual since its genesis in the triune One, etc. I am a mammal. There is possibly not one gesture, or tone of voice that I can call entirely my own for there is a bit of those who were around me in my childhood whom I imitated. Therefore, my self might be the sum of all these influences: people, circumstances, biology, time, climate, language, … ever-changing yet always the same. Soundtrack A mixture of Beethoven, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Paralamas do Sucesso and a poem by Oswaldo Montenegro. |
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The Drum Major Instinct
For theworkofthepeople.com The Drum Major Instinct (sermon delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968). A paraphrasing done with the help of Claudio Oliver. (Atonal?) music composed with modified samples of György Ligeti, a guitar in front of the computer, drum-sets, and a keyboard by Charlie Gibson. A typographic orgy. A puzzle. But hopefully with a meaning. Project for the Animation course, at Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, Master in Media Production, under the supervision of prof. Christian Marschalt. |
Choose Freedom #1By Bijoy George, Caro Liu, Dago Schelin, Daniel Yanik, Jan Pieniak, Maria Helena Toscano, Rogério Nishizawa, Simon Schulz. Supervised by Professor Christoph Althaus.
Commercials are usually made to persuade people to buy something. We thought: what if we tried to make a commercial persuading people of the opposite, in other words, not to buy anything, an anti-commercial? This is one of two spots produced during the 2nd semester of our master in Media Production in Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe. You can download this video FREE at theworkofthepeople.com Special thanks to Mr. Kai Czechau! czechau.de |
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Choose Freedom #2Choose Freedom. At first it may seem like a catchy slogan, and nothing more. But behind these two words lies a question, actually a series of questions concerning media, progress and the modern way of life. Despite the alleged facilitation of life with technology (progress) and the higher enjoyment with so many options for entertainment (media), this project aims to question such assumptions. “Choose” has the proposition of saying “no” to the so-called comforts and rights of customers. “Freedom” means actively pursuing goals instead of having them serviced for you.
This project is purposefully in the form of a commercial. It is so because of what this genre, the commercial, represents in the television/internet era. Common thought might say that commercials simply try to sell a product. But there are a myriad of unspoken truths much stronger than the simple advertising of a product. As Neil Postman would say in his controversial book Amusing Ourselves to Death, the “commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products.” He even goes further, stating that “what the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer” (Postman, 1985, p.128). In other words, on the personal level there is a psychological tone, and on the social level, commercial is embedded in the way people think which is quite hard to disassociate. Having this brief hypothesis as a background, the aim of Choose Freedom is a counterproposal. Instead of persuading the prospective consumer to buy a product, the spot will try to dissuade the person from buying anything, actually suggesting that he “choose freedom” by consuming less, as if saying “no thanks” to the seduction of commercials. Instead of passive acceptance of what the screen shows, the spectator is invited to be proactive. “The television commercial is about products only in the sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.” (Postman, 1985, p.131) By Bijoy George, Caro Liu, Dago Schelin, Daniel Yanik, Jan Pieniak, Maria Helena Toscano, Rogério Nishizawa, Simon Schulz. Supervised by Dr.-Ing. Jochem Berlemann. |