This piece serves as a video installation intended for an Experimental Filmmaking course at SCAD. I conceptualized and edited this project in a process that involved experimenting with layering archive video and audio.

Its purpose is to serve as a representation for how overwhelming the digital world can be. Statements are thrown around left and right, all with the belief they are the most pressing topic at any given moment. The screens serve to persuade with no remorse for how the pure influx of media thrown at the public might affect their mental health or worldview. People want to be told what to think because in a digital world full of a million questions of course there must be one answer for all of it. Or so we’d like to think.

The video slowly transforms into a black and white almost sketch like image. There’s a certain fatigue that happens after diving into the digital hellscape. A desire for simplicity comes after a journey through a cacophony of advertising, political fighting, celebrity drama etc. This fatigue and desire for simplicity usually entails putting down the phone or closing the computer and letting your brain breath, whether that be picking up a book, standing outside and squinting your eyes back to reality or just simply staring at a wall. The transition of the video to white represents that inevitable desire for everything to just go quiet, even if its just for a second.