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Wunderkammer - History of Violent Entertainment

An Homage to  Arthur Jafa’s  Love is the Message, Message is Death.

What I am portraying is the topic of human’s obsession towards violence and how it was already deeply embedded in our lives through various forms. Destruction and annihilation became this ultimate problem solver that we all worship. I categorized the types of violences by the level of destruction. The video was meant to be a macro to micro sequence. Starting from a large scale of destruction, and gradually zooming into the relatively smallest scale of violence weapon.

At the largest scale, there’s human’s obsession with explosions. I intended to create the sequence with one real-life footage connected with a fictional scene. From the cliche Hollywood CGI produced building explosions to actual factory explosions to building demolitions. The next one is a fire weapon, with actual video footage from youtube about how to shoot a gun. Starting off with tutorials of how to use Magnum shoot watermelons in the woods, which to my understanding may be the closest imitation to shooting an actual fleshed living creature, with the red juices splashing. Publicly shown assassinations and execution footages to me contain a lot of information. One footage was showing an execution in an Africa tribe where the upper class enjoys it as a celebratory event. The pulling of a trigger also would symbolize an ending of a life, but sometimes we tend to overlook it, since we were so used to seeing it in the cartoons. Suicide is may be just a thing? The third one is cold weapons, from knives to archery, and how they were utilized and portrayed contemporarily. Hunting is still a very popular form of entertainment, many in the western countries still reenacting the ancient wars as a form of entertainment. Last but not least, human limbs as our most intimate weapons. Which also has the ability of hurting someone.
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