Still Life

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57 seconds

This video is comprised of mechanical and non-mechanical toys set in motion against found footage backgrounds of landscapes and city-scapes. By overlapping imagery I was able to construct surreal realities for these objects normally only possible within the imagination. I was intrigued by the notion of inanimate objects being mechanically animated either through my manipulations of their internal mechanisms or through my manipulations of their interactions and placement in space and time. The phrase "still life" inspired within me the desire to give these objects a sense of "life" and also illustrate various aspects of life such as birth, childhood, work, religion, and death. The toys that I used present these symbolic ideas in a light, humorous way as if to say life is a game and question the notion of free will as well.