For this project, we had to create a video, that had to present at least a slight connection to medias.
I wanted to do a video about art and how it can be a form of therapy, which lead me to the idea that art is, first a form of therapy( Yayoi Kusama says that her doctor thinks that doing art is the best thing she could do to help herself) but also some form escape, something that ,in a way, takes control of your body, that makes you forget everything around you. This idea of forgetting the outside world lead to the idea of hypnosis, here, dancing hypnosis. In the video we can see people dancing under hypnosis, which seems to be freeing even though there is a manipulative aspect to it, something they have no control on. This idea of manipulation, finally lead to the idea of media and special effects. Special effects are present everywhere nowadays: in photography, movies… Even though we are aware of their existence and presence in movies, we don’t necessarily take them into account while watching the video. Films have a great ability to make the viewer feel various emotions, feelings. The viewer is going to be impressed by some landscape, even though it is only a simulation, something created digitally, or he is going to feel sad or anxious become something bad happened even though this event didn’t really happened in the real world.
All along the video, a cartoon film about social networks and how our privacy is being violated daily, appears and disappears.
Watch video here: https://vimeo.com/148577145
