User:Pelle-methods

Pelle (ANEMOIA)

Original version

WHAT Anemoia is a film about a fictional character in a non-fictional world, named Anna. So Anna is my alter ego in a way, the world she’s looking at is the one we live in today. You never actually see her physically because she’s looking through the eyes of the camera, or sharing her thoughts by talking to us.

Anna has this problem that her own nostalgia is keeping her from living in the present. She longs for a deeper connection with nature and a life more offscreen than on screen. Though these feelings are very genuine to her, she wonders if this nostalgia is actually real, authentic, or it just appears to be. By visiting several places which seem to be authentic Anna hopes to find answers, but daydreams occure and a life in the ‘here and now’ seems unreachable.

HOW I began to do research on the phenomenon of ‘nostalgia’ and meanwhile wrote an essay about the subject. Among other things like my personal experiences with nostalgia, this essay describes and explains these so-called ‘modern’ terms derived from nostalgia. After finishing this essay I wrote a film script using these derived terms from the essay and choosing ‘Anna’ to be the main character. Because of the main character’s quest you can say the film itself is essayistic as well. So writing an essay had a huge impact on the end result: the film, because eventually huge parts of the essay formed the structure of the film.

WHY I’m fascinated by the trends and hypes in the modern Western world today. One of them is the consumption industry responding to the wish of a group of people longing to have a more simple life closer to nature; a life often associated with the past because life was less digital before. It felt very good to dive into a subject that deep by doing research because you get to know things you didn't know before. In the end nostalgia for me was a more complex understanding than at the start of this project, something which made me feel *rich in a way. By translating this research into a visual piece, a film, I was hoping to trigger some minds to think of this phenomenon maybe differently than before, like what happened to me as well during the process.

Edited version

WHAT Anemoia is a [20min?] film about a fictional character in a non-fictional world. The central character, Anna is my unseen alter ego, who looks through the world the we live in today, through the eyes of the camera and narrates her thoughts to the viewer.

Anna's nostalgia is stopping her from living in the present.[how is this nostalgia expressed on screen? is it through the daydreams?] She longs for a deeper connection with nature and a life more offscreen than on screen. Eventhough these feelings are very genuine to her, she wonders if this nostalgia is actually real, authentic, or it just appears to be. By visiting several places which seem to be authentic Anna hopes to find answers, but daydreams occur and a life in the ‘here and now’ seems unreachable. [maybe more description of narrative/how are we shown that?]

HOW I began to do research on the phenomenon of ‘nostalgia’ and meanwhile wrote an essay on the subject. Among other things like my personal experiences with nostalgia, this essay describes and explains these so-called ‘modern’ terms derived from nostalgia. [what is the main thesis of the essay After finishing this essay I wrote a film script using these derived terms from the essay [how so in the film (in the narration &c?) and how is that translated to to the film?]and choosing ‘Anna’ to be the main character. Because of the main character’s quest you can say the film itself is essayistic as well. So Writing an essay had a huge impact on the end result: the film, because eventually the structure of the film was greatly informed by the essay.

WHY I’m fascinated by the trends and hypes in the modern Western world today. One of them is the consumption industry responding to the wish of a group of people longing to have a more simple life closer to nature; a life often associated with the past because life was less digital before. It felt very good to dive into a subject that deep by doing research because I got to know things I didn't know before. In the end nostalgia for me was a more complex understanding than at the start of this project, [how so?]something which made me feel *rich [how so?]. By translating this research into a visual piece, a film, I wanted to trigger people to think of this phenomenon differently than before, as happened to me during the process.