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Todd John Davies

   
Paramnesia
Film/video
 
Callaghan College Jesmond Campus videoPlay video (MPEG-4 video • 4m:59s • 10.9 MB)
 
I explored the issues of irony and paramnesia in today’s contemporary society. I wanted to express someone “remembering the future” incorporating the compelling sense that you have experienced a new situation previously accompanied with a strange weirdness. Through storyboarding and planning conceptual framework ideas of irony and déjà vu, I compiled the prediction of things to come. To support the notion that art imitates life I selected “Electric Chair” and “Green Car Crash”, by pop artist Andy Warhol, as the major components in the character's parallel memory journey. I found the experience enjoyable and hope people find it entertaining and thought-provoking.