Surrealist gesture

All images in this film were found easily and freely on the internet; the most powerful and all-encompassing multimedia tool of mass communication and information dissemination available in the entire history of mankind. I did not create any of these images, I only compiled them.

The images which comprise this “film” are shocking, disgusting, enraging, despicable and often, seemingly banal. All these images share one commonality amongst them; they are products created by members of the societies we all find ourselves living within. These images are products of our environment – and when our environment (both physical and mental) is quite literally poisoned, polluted, degraded, abused, affected and based off of half-truths, lies, deceptions and systematically contrived posturing and manipulations – then this is what we get. Everything utilized in this film was created under the moral tenets and ethical guidance of our civilized societies. These are our Frankenstein monsters, our demons let loose and our fears fully realized; word made cancerous flesh (Although, please, do make note that some images in this film are made from a genuine perspective of one thinking of these revulsions already – and denouncing in their own right. That is to say, there are clips included in the film of other people already screaming for the right reasons, against the myriad of true horrors contained herein).

This is the direct result of our ceaseless degradation of the human spirit, our vilification of the otherwise naturally inert human thoughts of darkness, our demeaning of gender and sexual proclivity; our commodification of the flesh. We suppress, repress, ignore, bury, stifle and outright deny these things a proper intellectual honesty. This is all part and parcel of our deliberate, massive institution based around willful ignorance that consumes some to the point of a hysterical schizophrenia. Forgetting… dismissively turning our heads… even though we know deep down, we know, that these things are not ghosts and far away from us – they are tangible and right outside our doors, sometimes even within our own houses. These sicknesses breed because of our lethargic submission to the Capitalist perversions of human emotion shamelessly passed off as ‘comfortable living’ in our modern age – and because the absolute prostitution of a true compassion has derailed our core humanity, we have been bred to want to be distracted, to want to not think. This film is comprised of the output produced and allowed by a society of deceived, scared animals who are so confused and shielded from their own minds that they no longer understand how to process their own existence – which is precisely what divorces us from our base humanity. We cease seeing the world as a connected, shared system and instead view things in dangerously small and closed off ways. This is what has turned the human condition into a dissociative schizophrenia – a pathology – and in the process human beings have grown further and further away from the basic humanitarian necessities of our shared perceived reality. War is elsewhere, detached. Our sexuality is shameful, disgusting and denied- which has turned most everything into some sort of dark fetish, more extreme than the last, in a reactionary attempt to own our own bodies once again; to punish and release in equal measure. Senseless, and dangerously illogical bigotries have been fostered and encouraged by religious and political institutions for no other reason than that it helps support their versions of truth, order, and in turn, comfortable control and profit. Their hate, disguised as love and law, is widespread, accepted, commonplace – even incited and noisily renewed by thousands of instantaneous sources on a daily basis. The human being is divorced completely from the single species it really is – there is always a clear “other” who is without a doubt, not us, someone who is different and thereby, contemptible.

All the while in America, 1% of the population controls the wealth of the nation and so it follows, they control every aspect of the information we receive that defines our personalities and experiences of the world. A bloody Capitalist regime, comprised of a-moral death merchants runs amok, utterly cold and uncaring for the populace which it programs and controls for its own nefarious and deeply insidious means of production, profit and loss. All they understand and traffic in is a corrupt, inhumane brutality, so should it not be someone’s duty to, in fair turn, hold a mirror up to their own vulgarity? To them human life is utterly worthless, meaningless and interchangeable – they understand humanity only through the numbers it represents, a global economic board game using people as worthless, plastic pieces; the absolute monetization of life in all forms… this is what concerns them. Nothing more. As that seems to be an indisputable and indefatigable fact of our modern lives, then it stands to reason that these people certainly hold an intense and great interest in driving us to ceaselessly consume senseless commodities provided to us without end, so as to create the unimpeded flow and circulation to this vast, accumulated resource of the “one percent’s” money. This is one of the reasons why journalism is no longer journalism (the same reason democracy is not democracy in America- kowtowing to special interest groups for financial recompense) – rather it simply stands as a gross parody of the notion; designed to entertain and promote certain aspects of the lifestyle which feeds everything else. Entertainment has become news and vice versa now, there is no distinguishing factor. Our best interests are sold out to the highest bidder and we are deliberately exposed to rampant misinformation and unethical, bombastic ‘infotainment’ sturm and drang – all designed to simply lend credence to the larger, even more fraudulent and self-serving lies which exist only to support the overall structure of the bloated bureaucracy.
SO – is it any wonder that some of the horrific things we can witness in this film are what we’ve come to represent? Create? Consume?

Is it worth compiling into an unbearably long litany of horrors; a montage of monstrosities, just for the slim chance that some may very simply think about the, admittedly, few contextual trappings I’ve been framing this work into?

Can the desire to confront those who choose to ignore be considered a fool’s errand? Can it be a futile and trite exercise bred only out of one of the solipsistic symptoms which have been learned and embedded into me by the very establishments I’m attempting to rally against?
Or can this be considered a rock; volleyed with a sincerity of good faith, at the phantom storm troopers serving at the behest of a collective fascist nightmare which we are unwilling, en masse to awaken ourselves from?

Who knows? Not me…

I fully admit this is not the film I set out to make, but I was not strong enough to create what I had originally imagined. I had envisioned a much more deliberate, rhythmic cadence to the editing, filled with much more varied content… but unfortunately I had to leave it as it now stands. I could no longer spend any more time watching, re-watching and selecting pieces from the hours of footage I culled to create the film. Beware when you peer into the darkness, the darkness also peers into you… so the saying goes. I worked on this film for more than a month and it carried me off into extraordinarily dark spaces, it seeped into my life and fueled my nightmares- I had to abandon hope for a controlled hand directing the piece, determining how precisely it would come together. I simply had to give up, defeated by the brutalities which compose the piece, yet fully believing in the overall statement and ideology which inspired and drove the piece.

You should NOT enjoy this film, you should be disgusted, completely and deeply disturbed and sickened that it even exists. The real question is – what are you going to do about it? How will you justify its existence? What reasons will you give yourselves to explain why it sits, here on the internet, made by a “civilized citizen”?

PLEASE BE ADVISED : THIS FILM SHOULD BE CONSIDERED TO CARRY AN “X” RATING FOR DISTURBING IMAGES AND SCENES OF GRAPHIC VIOLENCE AND PORNOGRAPHY.