CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED
Children of the Damned was created to coincide with the 7th London ACT ART event, with the same title. The video was edited into a trailer for the event, as well as a longer version that was screened on the night. CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED addressed difference, and the press release asked... What is it that makes us different? What does being ‘normal’ or ‘different’ really mean? Does the way a person looks or acts define them as ‘different’? Or is it more routed in what is considered to be the ‘norm’ by the majority? Do we really embrace difference? Or is it merely tolerated or accepted because of equal opportunities and human rights? Making up the masses are those whose instincts are to conform and go with the crowd. They go along with the majority and take its beliefs to heart, often through no fault of their own, having had it bred into them from an early age - handed down from one generation to the next, or brainwashed subversively by the media. There are those in society who form the mass and others who are more individualist, standing up for what they believe in at all cost. People are often treated as outcasts, shunned and used as scapegoats because of the way they look, act, or inter-act within society, and are therefore frowned upon and sidelined as not being ‘normal’. Individualists are willing and also able to think and act differently from what is regarded as the ‘norm’, often this isn’t even a choice as it’s born into their personality and psyche or as a result of a life experience.
Devised: Frost + Massive.
Featuring: Jonny Woo, Scottee, Ryan Styles + Collagen Westwood.
Filmed: Oliver Frost, Marc Massive + Bambi Fantastic.
Edited: Oliver Frost + Marc Massive.
actart.co.uk
Screened: ACT ART 7 - Children Of The Damned, Hidden, London, UK.
Children of the Damned was created to coincide with the 7th London ACT ART event, with the same title. The video was edited into a trailer for the event, as well as a longer version that was screened on the night. CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED addressed difference, and the press release asked... What is it that makes us different? What does being ‘normal’ or ‘different’ really mean? Does the way a person looks or acts define them as ‘different’? Or is it more routed in what is considered to be the ‘norm’ by the majority? Do we really embrace difference? Or is it merely tolerated or accepted because of equal opportunities and human rights? Making up the masses are those whose instincts are to conform and go with the crowd. They go along with the majority and take its beliefs to heart, often through no fault of their own, having had it bred into them from an early age - handed down from one generation to the next, or brainwashed subversively by the media. There are those in society who form the mass and others who are more individualist, standing up for what they believe in at all cost. People are often treated as outcasts, shunned and used as scapegoats because of the way they look, act, or inter-act within society, and are therefore frowned upon and sidelined as not being ‘normal’. Individualists are willing and also able to think and act differently from what is regarded as the ‘norm’, often this isn’t even a choice as it’s born into their personality and psyche or as a result of a life experience.
Devised: Frost + Massive.
Featuring: Jonny Woo, Scottee, Ryan Styles + Collagen Westwood.
Filmed: Oliver Frost, Marc Massive + Bambi Fantastic.
Edited: Oliver Frost + Marc Massive.
actart.co.uk
Screened: ACT ART 7 - Children Of The Damned, Hidden, London, UK.
