Saturday 8 November 2014

EXPLAINED : 割脈 Slit. Wrist. - An Animation About The Things We Don't Talk About

Death.
As living creatures, we all have a morbid fear of death. Our human-ly fear of the unknown, is an unconditional handicap. Our disability cripples us, forcing us to progress forwards with a crutch. We know not when it shall arrive; our departure.

Topics and discussions that encircle death are notorious for taboo-ness and escalated levels of tenderness as it is of our impairment, our soft spot. We are territorial and protective of our soft and tender undersides. Our primal reflexes, the fight-or-flight response; when in the face of death, guides us to cower, to flee. When death looks us in the eye, rattles our window-panes; his grin stretching across his gaunt skeletal features, revealing a toothy or toothless smile, all is lost. Death cannot be cheated.

Suicide.
However, instead of cheating death, one has the ability to quicken it. Any creature of conscience has the ability to stop life. To maim, to kill, to commit suicide. Reasons and factors that drive one to be reunited with death may be vague to some, but lucid to others. They who have lived, experienced a tryst with death, and lived again; they understand.

In this short animated film, I wanted to portray the importance of knowing. Knowing to prevent, knowing to ensure, and knowing to understand; what is occurring, recurring, and what may be of becoming.

One : A Grasp at Life


Like the High Place Phenomenon (HPP), upon nearing occurrences of death-related activities; surges of adrenaline washes through the body, making us tense and acutely aware : A Fight-or Flight response. There is an unbalanced giddiness in our mental ocean. Indirect confusion, the loss of judgmental skills, indecision.

Two : A Mental Note


A conflicted mind. Conscience urges you to hold fast, our primitive nature forces us to let go. A state of higher consciousness overrides the mainframe of the command centre. A greater force is in the works.

Three : A Cut Above


A choice of cuts. Like a steak, as juicy as possible; to get the most out of one opportunity, one cut. The cut above all.

Four : The Leak of A Lifetime


As the cold steel of the blade parts the delicate skin, slicing through the epidermis to nick at the intersection point where the Brachial artery branches off into the radial and ulnar arteries; you feel lightweight, almost free. The pass of the blade severs the artery, opening the flood gates. Your life forces seep through the slit in your forearm, spurting and gushing, your burden to be relieved.

Five : Spread The Word


As the 'burden' channels down, it sweeps away the cloud of permanent ignorance that shrouds the World in its feathery mist; shedding light upon the epidemic. The World has to know. The World has to KNOW. 

"THE WORLD HAS TO KNOW"

You are Jesus. You are Muhammad. You are Moses. You are Guru Nanak Dev Ji. You are Siddharta GautamaYou are the prophet. 

Six : Flipping a Finger


A host. A trustee. A stranger.
Holding him or her at gunpoint with your finger-gun, you hold him hostage. You hesitate for a fraction of a second. The cause has blossomed. You realise that it isn't entirely about you any more. You are enlightened. There is more. There is good to come. Your sacrifice for mankind.

His minute is up. You blast him with the full wrath.

Your time has come. His, has just begun. 

Seven : Taking It In


He begins to transform. The remnants of your mind anchors upon his memories. Your physical shell may have perished, but your ren lives on. 

From the parallel beyond, you watch over him. You are his angel. His bloodied wretch of an angel.

It appears muddy and disoriented in the beginning. He is learning to grasp the concept. The lines do not meet. Not yet.

Eight : Absorb, Ruminate, Feel


The burden is no more. With his power of humanity, he has altered the burden. Absorbing, ruminating, understanding; he begins to feel what it is to be alive.




"To die, one has to first; be alive"

The burden is now a gift. A gift of knowledge of such greatness, it renders any herculean tasks elementary. 






It is of becoming. 

Nine : Divulge



He is the divulger of secrets. The one who hears and listens. The living God.

His time has come, but before he parts this very land that he has been weaned and cultivated upon; he must share. They have the right to know.

Ten : Lifeline


The end. 
If he fails, there is none left to salvage; only bodies. 







It can be done. 
Just not today.


Erratic Behaviour

If you have yet to watch it, or wish to rewatch it with a greater understanding, here it is.


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