Video Collage

My video collage emphasizes the rapid speed of interception and publishing of the Wikileaks documents. I parallel the wikileaks story with a scene from the Final Flight of the Osiris in the Animatrix in which a woman gracefully runs and jumps over rooftops and buildings to make her way to a postbox to deliver what looks like a VHS tape. She is inside the Matrix which is a digital world and she is also a digital creation(both literally digitally animated and she is a digital avatar inside the matrix) in my story she represents the process of carrying the leaked documents to their destination over the internet.

There is a conversation at the end of the video in which an older lady says to her, "I hope it gets to where it's supposed to go, these days you never know". The woman responds and says "no, you never do". This represents the irony that the documents are not really going where they were supposed to go.

I learned just how powerful it can be to place an image and a word together. The part in my video when the woman breaks through the window and the glass falls, I always connect the glass to the documents because the narration at this time is "a vast leak of thousands of documents". There is a part where the narration says "drops 70,000 documents on the website in July" and after he says this the woman smashes to the ground as if she represents the 70,000 documents. I didn't plan these things but again, I was reminded of the power that you have when making experimental film like this collage, that if you take a random image and a word and put them together, then the human mind will connect the dots, usually in surprising ways.