Momento Mori: Equality Six Feet Under

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Mortality is the great equalizer—we all die, we might as well acknowledge it.

Interested in exploring results of being reminded of our own mortality for this project, I surmised that this mortal reminder offers an opportunity to use death and the reminder of death a form of equalization. Essentially, a true marker of equalization within the human species is that we all die, regardless of our origins, cultures, religions, or beliefs.

I thought an interesting way to explore this idea would be to film a bunch of different people straight on, facing the camera. Then utilizing some of the alternative methods I explored in alternative methods in motion media class, distort the imagery, intercutting, and juxtaposing them. I choose friends from a wide array of cultural and racial backgrounds to further emphasize the idea of equality.

Images seen here have been glitched, step-printed and further distorted using exposure and speed ramping, to the point where we start seeing double images where faces become skeletal and then are faces again, flickering back an forth indiscriminately capturing the relationship between corporeal and ephemeral.

Animation created in Alternative Motion Techniques