For this project, I wanted to draw from within and chose a subject matter consisting of sleep, trouble communicating, and emotional confusion.
I’ve always used video to explore complicated emotions and ideas in my head that I couldn’t begin to try and process or talk about in English; My thoughts get lost in translation, and the best language I could output them in was this video, hence the title.
The content of this video is made up of obscure video clips I appropriated from Wikimedia Commons.
I chose to use a bunch of different languages because thoughts and emotions become as confusing as a foreign tongue after many rough nights.
The sound design gives the video a vibe and auditorily conveys hard emotions. I used a “stone-never-hits-the-river” temporal thinking in organizing my timeline in Premiere.
Every dong sound and paper swap occurs twice as early as the previous one, so they occur exponentially more rapidly as the video goes on.
I wrote a poem consisting of a lot of questions I find myself in search for answers to, jumbled through many languages on google translate to articulate the energy of my words, and represent the fogginess of such thoughts.
The idea for this video came somewhat autonomously, as a vision for what I needed to portray.
Confusing and strange, like a bad dream, but with a message written on paper.
The tears represent missing information, disorganization, and harshness.
For this, I was partially inspired by a skate video: "I like it here inside my mind. Don’t wake me this time." (2016) POLAR SKATE CO
