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Threshøld: April 2019
Thesis Film Screening – Defense Speech – April 30, 2019 – full film with sound and performance documentation on Vimeo. Access Thesis Project Proposal/Paper here: Thesis Paper
Concept Summary:
This 3 minute abstract, animated film, titled Threshøld, is part of a continuing investigation into the concept of paradox. I started this project by asking, how do humans handle self contradiction and confrontation from others? How can we become better equipped to navigate social and political discourse by learning about paradox? I engaged with these questions by exploring how paradox effects my own life before looking for it around me. The narrative of this film is a personal reflection on the evolution of my identity over time. It analyzes my struggles with attachment, perfection, duality, and obsession and relates these experiences to the world outside myself.
The use of oppositional imagery such as black and white, red and blue, oil and water reference a balance between concepts we consider immiscible, like “abstraction and representation, fact and fiction, order and chaos;” Where didactic meets ambiguous. These illusionary oppositions, in reality, depend on one another. We must know light in order to understand the vastness of the dark, and vice versa. We must rest and dream in order to maintain lucidity in waking life. My central thesis is that we must learn to listen to ourselves in order to better listen to one another, and we must listen to one another if we want to make radical change in the face of paradox.