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At this years 31st Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival here at Ramapo College, we had the chance to view many different varieties of short films. There was one in specific that really caught my eye and had a bit of a relation to our Digital Literacy class. The film explained that over time, the lives of people around the world is the basis of our connection as a whole. We all have to understand, as individuals, that we are somehow all connected and created equally and share the hope for a better future. Everything around us including collective knowledge is dependent on each other and that our continuous curiosity will only move us forward. We all collectively learn from our mistakes and each others mistakes, which in the end helps us to pave a smoother future ahead. We all must learn that it is now time to connect and declare interdependence together. The film was extremely inspirational that I went on their website to do a little more research about this change and signed up to “declare my interdependence.”
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ReplyDeleteSeveral of the films shown in the 31st Annual Black Maria Film & Video Festival were not really that interesting to me. The first few that we saw upon arrival were merely slide shows of black and white photos with audio of preachers praising the Lord. Further down along the list I became very intrigued with “Another Dress, Another Button.” I am always enthralled with stop motions and this one told an incredibly adorable story, reminiscent of Toy Story. It showed what a pile of buttons did when no one was watching: they waltzed and twirled and danced in patterns among the table until they heard their owner coming. Another film that I thought was exceptional was “Year, Make & Model,” a dance movie that takes place in a tune-up garage. The set, props, and costumes were beautiful and brought the story through dance alive. The last video that the commissioner put on for us, that was not even on the list, was extremely trippy. I felt like I was being brainwashed. But even then, as I sat through these videos, I realized one, how far technology has come, and two how easily we can share other’s experiences now. We collectively gathered in an auditorium and viewed student made films, which is not even an accurate word anymore, because they were all on a DVD.
A key film that especially got me thinking about this was “A Declaration of Interdependence.” It is true that Interdependence is what the world of technology has created. Everyone should be able to “recognize the fundamental qualities that connect us” and through the ever updating ways of capturing sound and picture, coupled with the internet leads to a vastly smaller world. This video itself announces in the beginning that they asked people to contribute to a short film about interdependence; they said art and video feeds came in from around the world. They demonstrate effectively the difference in cultures that participated by switching back and forth between multitudes of different languages. In essence the video itself shows how different the people of the world are, and yet how in today’s world we can be brought together with a few strokes of a keyboard.