i was immediateley drawn to the video screen on the wall. it was playing an animated video that just hypnotized me, so i'll critique that.
"LaLaLa" by Lawrence Cromwell
This peice was incredible. The video is (supposedly) hand drawn. The images twist and warp into scenes that start out innocent and then turn quickly into violent images in a PTSD kind of way. A simple tounge grows missle silos, a snowman aquires guns and his face turns skull-like, and a house in a snowglobe is shaken to reveal the "snow" is really tiny macine guns, among others. It's hypnotizing. The only sound in the video is the artist (i think it's the artist, anyway) droning "la, la, la, la..." in monotone, like a mantra or holy chant. The peice finishes with a boy (who was chasing a ball that turned into a bomb) swept into the arms of his mother. What kind of world will he grow up to inherit?
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