User:Aitantv/AvP

Synopsis

Iconic apocalyptic sci-fi monologues merge into a single speech made by an Alien-Lizard President. AvP intercuts this fantasy monologue with found footage of environmental catastophe, apocalyptia gameplay, and original footage of derelict landscapes and spaces.

Critiques

• I'm constructing artifice and removing myself from reality, in a safe predictable, 'conceptual', sci-fi space. It's so removed from the real it fails to deal with socio-cultural matter.
• This project puts me in a strait-jacket, captured by performativity. I'm faking it, in a way that I find uninteresting. It's like a masked cabaret. Life is not a masquerade. There's subterrain beneath the surface of appearances, representations. How to go beyond representation in a visual medium? How to get to actuality?
• I feel my practice should just be an extension of my life, not an appendage. It should slow naturally from my lived reality instead of being an appendage. Now it is a balloon I constantly have to inflate lest it deflates and becomes a limp sack.