ESMF #15 The State Is Not God

The Synopsis of the Film:

Ever So Much Fun began as Grant Clarkson's 87th album of original music. On a few of the compositions, samples of dialogue from various episodes of the Twilight Zone were added for musical effect. When this double album was completed, there was a story lying within, and it was the story of a composer composing the story of his life from childhood to present.

The theme of this play incorporates Frederich Nietzsche's idea of 'Eternal Recuurence'. With the science-fiction motif of traveling back in time, particular scenes from the Twilight Zone serve as allegory to the recurrence experience.

Originally conceived as a stage production, Ever So Much Fun evolved into the musical film you are about to see, relying exclusively on the Twilight Zone for visual content and Nietzsche's writings for narrative content.

Being that Grant Clarkson is a bassist, the bass is the vehicle through which the recurrence experience is composed, and the piccolo bass (little bass) is the younger self residing in those past experiences, reconciling at the end.

Put another way - the description from the website:

This is a musical film first and foremost, but telling a philosophical story with post-modern and black and white film noir style elements. It's narrative is exclusively subtitles from the classic writings and aphorisms from Frieidrich Nietzsche, and the drama is purely through pastiche of Twilight Zone film stock.

The original story, however is a contemporary depiction of the experience and sensibilities of a young artist, who in this generation knows how to incorporate and reappropriate elements of pop culture to express his personal experience, and give expression to the ambivalences of creative life in the 21st century. As voiced by the opening aphorism from Nietzsche:

"Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but by seeing the old, well known thing, which is seen and overlooked by everyone, as something new. The first discoverer is usually that quite ordinary and unintellectual visionary - chance."

This film finds something new in the fusion of these old and well known elements, and the experience of finding how uncanny they fit together was as if by chance, giving the composer-director quite a first hand 'Twilight Zone' type experience. And for the audience, the film resolves with a positive message about how even the existential mysteries and ambivalences can be redeemed through art and expression.

Link to buy the DVD:

http://www.filmbaby.com/films/3380

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