THE JOY AND TRAGEDY OF HUMAN EXPRESSION.

The Joy And Tragedy of Human Expression.
A film nature would not allow to fully exist.

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What follows are words from the creator in no particular order they delve into the reasons and foundations of such a debasement of human expression.

Temporal

The length of the film is unknown to a certain degree it is expected to run for as long as the piece is displayed, the repetition of the film follows a progressive revealing of different footage each relating to past images, sound and text but also referring to possible future occurrences. The slow revealing of content in the film is a reference to the slow incremental forward motion of life, the universe.

If you do not pay attention, nothing will be missed. This is the disgraceful state we have allowed ourselves to descend into. the bowels of convention, head first into the jaws of the standard. the innards of the ‘significant’ collected together in a black box, holding the pure aesthetic and investing everything into the dimming of the organic memory.

content images

The chosen images all have a duality, for every formalised constructed recognisable image the audience encounter there is an opposite formless, unrecognisable image. The collection of images ranged from my own footage to that taken from television, cinema and the public domain.

Each of the chapters is made up of four screens, each designated with its own imagery, sounds and text they are to be played in some cases as one cohesive unit, playing each of the four screens as one but in most cases as a decontextualised image being played along side something designed as an random/opposite.

The determined use of science and pornography is the extreme of human expression, the former, one of noble causes that regrettably forces the sterility of knowledge and renders beings as simple aberrations of something bigger to the latter’s glorious debasement of ecstasy and joy left to be acted out between consenting adults all shaped by the pay check they will receive at the end of the day.

The title of the work The Joy and Tragedy of Human Expression is a contextualising element and therefore serves a pivotal role in the receipt of this work. Without the title the film delves into a more abstracted random world where the images, sound and text bring about an infinite amount of contexts with themselves but this too is a very important aspect of the film. The film is designed not to be watched in the conventional ways in which we the audience expect, there is a beginning but this is a representation of a beginning, the film is made to be watched from any point once the film has begun in the confines of the gallery space the assumption the audience will come and go as they see fit, in terms of cinema and television the audience are aware of the linear narratives utilised within the program and therefore will stay until they are satisfied the program has reached a conclusion.

beginning – middle – end

the choice to utilise knowledge relating to the nature of the gallery and auditorium has shaped the character of the film. the length and content have been specifically chosen to both inflame and numb the senses.