Fear comes from uncertainty. Along with fake news and conspiracies, it spreads like wildfire. People stay at home and stay away from the pandemic. But everything just come too fast such that break us into fragments. We have too many hardships these years. So in 2021 we imprison ourselves and are numb to everything.
You can’t awaken someone who is pretending to be asleep. To some degree, we know what is happening around us. To some degree, we escape from it with impunity.
The video essay serves as an allegory to warn us not to have such a mindset.
Lok Man Poon
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– Research on different states of sleep.
– Explore the range of sleeping spaces and consider using the bed as potential film device.
– Test different camera angles and views around the bed that can explore your concepts of sleep.