Timeless Concepts Colliding With The Digital Age Analysis

The film in which I am doing my evaluation for is my short experimental film Timeless Concepts Colliding with the Digital Age. My role throughout the production was director, camera man, producer and editor. The film is an experimental piece that deals with the themes of time, peace and war and is a statement about humanity: where we are as a society now and where we are going. When I started experimental film, even though it was really the first time I was introduced with the whole concept behind it, I instantly had short ideas for a film but the more I thought about them, the harder it seemed to actually capture it. I started to research different experimental film artists but none of them seemed to resonate with me. Luckily one of my friend’s father is an experimental artist, Richard Ashrowan. So I then researched and watched some of his works such as
So I decided to compile iconic quotes and photographs that represented war and peace to make a contrast against the flowers. With the quotes and photographs, I printed them and filmed them being set on fire. This is to symbolise that all that has happened and been said in the last century is all for naught because I personally believe that there hasn’t been a significant change that we need. I also got stock footage of a nuclear bomb which is to symbolise where were are going as a society in which I think is nuclear destruction. Then in the editing of it, with the burning rose bud, as I am reciting the poem in full now, I chose to censor the flower towards the end. This is to symbolise that some of the bad stuff that happens in this world goes without any media attention or is censored in which I believe that everyone should know the truth of what actually goes