WORD SALAD: Creativity and Madness with Foxes, Deer, Ducks, and Chickens – Video

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WORD SALAD: Creativity and Madness with Foxes, Deer, Ducks, and Chickens
Word Salads come in many forms: In psychiatry it refers to a thought disorder found in various forms of psychosis; in the creative field a break from purely logical thinking to arrive at new meanings; in poetry it suggests playing with language such as the famous Jabberwocky poem of Lewis Carroll. Some word salads are complete non-sense and in others you have to dig for the meaning. In this video, it is a mix of all these senses. This semi-divine comedy takes an out-of-the-box "mockumentary" approach to the creator-producer #39;s state of mind and tells his tale through his alter-ego, Rembrandt and some of his friends. It presents a new look at creativity and a new look at madness. It begins like an educational piece on creativity but soon evolves into a mad morality/mortality play. In it he mocks contemporary art, immigration policy, museum installations, architects, rap, himself--even God. This video, Word Salad, begins with a series of sketches, using widely differing multi-media approaches from word-play games, graphic manipulations, documentary, fantasy installations, music/poetry videos, to posters and rap. It makes suggestions about the creative process and creative expression that carry through the video and looks at their relationship to madness. Like the elements of a salad, the sketches are individually prepared before they get mixed together. Issues of bowing to the past vs. starting fresh, boundaries and intimacy, choosing and being chosen, standing out and ...From:jgyoungmdViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:15:16More inFilm Animation

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