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Maja Kirovska - Where is the exit? probably sisyphus knows

2:57, 2011, Video Art
 
This video is a metaphor for us, modern Sisyphuses, preoccupied with our everyday repeatable actions that almost get unconscious character. Person almost becomes forgotten category in our society, just a number in the series, man - one little screw of the big machine, his personal needs controlled through mass media, his spiritual values neglected. It represents the “blessing” of unawareness and the unbearable heaviness of the moment of getting conscious of our position in the global movement of the things. But exactly that moment is the turning point in the process of making changes.
The video shows a big number of ants that repeatedly are trying to climb up to the top, and at every attempt they slide to the bottom, not changing the position and not trying to find another way. Actually the scene is not set and the video has documentary character and represent the natural behavior of insects in non natural environment. A written sentence at the beginning explains the reason for their unpleasant position “...impasse they find themselves, in search for existence (food), seduced by my organic cosmetics placed by the bath tub.”
But fortunately (or unfortunately), unlike the ants we have a conscious mind, and unlike Sisyphus we have free will, what is better starting position than theirs in finding the “exit”.

DirectorMaja KirovskaProducerMaja KirovskaWriterMaja KirovskaCameraMaja KirovskaEditorMaja KirovskaCrewKrste Gospodinovski
Aleksandar Nikov
Vera Milosavlevska
 

CountryMacedoniaEdition2011
 

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