I do have one teeny thing to show you though. We recently (and by recently it was like early November...) worked on a really short project called 'End of the Party' where we had to choose some kind of political stance on something. Otherwise, it was very open so I thought I would interpret in quite an abstract form. I decided to loosely base it on victim blaming, and how in crimes of abuse or rape, victims are lured into a false sense of security; for some reason this doesn't become part of the criminal offence, and becomes the 'fault' of the victim, 'they had it coming', 'why weren't they more careful' or 'it's their own fault for BEING vulnerable'.
I wanted to create something that initially seems harmless, and viewing something that looks somewhat equal or an act of heroism. You soon realise that it's a trap, and the hand above crushes the one in need. I thought that animation would be a good way to show action and movement, without having to use 'set up' or documentary style filming in live action. This I think comes across as much more sinister and destructive, and perhaps show exactly how we can be physically and mentally hurtful to other people. We all have the potential to destroy each other, but maybe we've become numbed to this violence because we've been able to remove ourselves from situations that you read about on the news or see reconstructed in video games.
It is our own choice to what we do with the power that we have; the hand is capable of both help and harm. It's our responsibility to use our hand wisely.
