ANATHEMA - To be yourself

Vídeo feito no âmbito da disciplina de Construção da Imagem Fílmica do curso de Estudos Artísticos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra

This video was developed as an university project in University of Coimbra, in the degree of Artistic Studies, Making of the Filmic Image


ANATHEMA is about the youth. Its challenges, weaknesses, disappointments, but also about its dreams, hopes, virtues. It tries to question the essence of youth, when it comes both to its positive and negative attributes.


Anathema - To be yourself; is a short video that's meant to show the good things that youth has to offer. As I tried to show in Anathema - Divided, conquered; youth has many challenges that it must face in order to find a better future.

"To be sucessful in life" - I say, in the beginning "you have to do three things. One of them is to know thyself"

A corrupt pre-established society has managed to subvert the minds and the lifes of many young people. Not only the youth has to face several social and environmental problems, but it is also part of the problem. Some young people fight one another over futile differences, contributing to a problematic social cycle, that drains away the self-esteem of each one of us. As such, many people feel apathy for all of those problems, as they are more busy defending their pride than actually making a stand against it.

Yet, there is, undoubtly, hope. The current generation is in a much better place to solve those problems than many others that came before us. Actually, we have to thank those who came before. It's the previous generations that raised awareness against racism, sexism, environmental issues, corruption, slavery, degradating life conditions, felt by many people, and so on.

Sometimes, it feels like this generation is so apathic that it doesn't bother to fight for their rights, but that is due to a brainwashing society that devalues each one of us every day. Because supposedly you aren't as handsome as that famous actor in the TV, or because in order to get a job (even if it's at MCdonalds) you have to fake your way through the job interview, or because you feel you have to buy that fancy car to prove you earn more than your neighbour, or because you have to be more X or Y to make your crush fall in love with you, because girls / guys don't like guys / girls that are like A or B. And that is all a load of stupidity, because the truth is, you are more than that. You have a personality. Use it.

Many people are unhappy and don't know what to do with their lifes because they live those lies. They live someone's else personality, and don't know how to be themselves.

And so, the first step into solving many of this world's problems is to getting to know yourself. Only then you can see what you really like and don't like about you. By changing yourself, you'll change the environment you live in, direct or indirectly.


Only then we will all realize that such a generation has a lot more potential for good than any other. Energy. Talent. Empathy. Take pride on that, and don't let that spirit die.

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• Be Yourself (Audioslave Song)
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• youth
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• activism
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• artistic Art Youth music
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• college
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[RoseMitchelle]

Cool. I like it. I've been thinking about doing a video like that... obviously with another video. But you know, just filming the world... xD