ALL THIS FOR NOTHING - Origins of Oceania Music Video

Debut film from music producer and filmmaker Jamie 'Stan' Stanley's 'Origins of Oceania' project.
http://www.myspace.com/originsofoceania
http://www.myspace.com/zeitgeistproduction

As much as I encourage free interpretation of art, I have discovered that people of a certain mindset have a tendency to wilfully misinterpret this video as something it is not purely to discredit me and my artistic efforts. So to set the record straight, below is the description I use when entering it into film festivals, art exhibitions and the like.

ATFN Synopsis / Proposal

This piece is set in the overtly authoritarian neo-conservative world of the Bush / Blair era. It concerns the disintergration of The Worker's false perception of himself and the world around him. The causes of the disintegration are the conflicting voices, instincts and feelings within him.

The Worker is the tiniest of cogs in a slightly bigger wheel within an enormous machine, a machine that cares not whether he lives or dies, happily or otherwise, so long as the system remains intact. In reality, he is a lonely, exploited ant. He cannot cope with this reality so in his mind he constructs an alternative self who is a super achieving, alpha male, high-flyer enjoying his freedom.

As a true believer in the system he is, in his mind, surrounded by appropriate symbols of wealth and consumerism. In reality, the only one of these that he can afford and actually exists is his giant TV. To him the TV and its broadcast content symbolises the outward face of the system: polished, airbrushed, seemingly benign and under his control.

Over the course of the film, his fragile false reality starts to crumble. This is symbolised by the TVs broadcast content taking on a life of its own and starting to tell an altogether different story than the one he subscribes to on a daily basis. Gradually it all comes crashing down around him and he is left in no doubt as to the true nature of the world and his place in it. But ultimately, he chooses to pull the plug on his breakdown / emancipation and ends up back where he started, in abject denial.

The piece deals with themes of human rights abuse on multiple levels. On the one hand we have the arguably self-inflicted human rights abuse that The Worker endures while living and working under authoritarian rule (closely linked with the idea of how capitalist/consumerist society is abusive and exploitative by it's very nature). On the other we have the more overt human rights abuses conducted by the regime in the name of 'freedom' against sovereign people around the world.

Ultimately the worker has a choice, the powerless victims of the regime do not. By curtailing his own enlightenment and clinging to the myth of his own powerlessness he is by proxy supporting and endorsing the abusive behaviour of the regime, behaviour which is tantamount to fascism. He is therefore, unknowingly, a fascist by association, as many people living under such regimes unwittingly become. The never-ending cycle of abuse remains intact.

NB: If my use of the F-word in the final paragraph above surprises you and you doubt it's validity, I recommend that you watch the film adaptation of celebrated writer and feminist Naomi Wolf's incredible book The End of America: 10 steps to Fascism to put it in perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1_xocoCXM8

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Film & Animation

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• Rock
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• Politics
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• Origins-Of-Oceania
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[originsofoceania]

Fresh from a heated debate about the rights and wrongs of western foreign policy and the relationship between art and politics, I'd like to clarify that this video, like all art, is a product of free expression and entirely open to interpretation and not, as has been comically suggested to me recently, a "party political broadcast for the communist party and conspiracy obssessed lefties everywhere".

Although blatantly, they are all aliens... ;)*

(*This is what is commonly known as a JOKE)

[Unity4allhumans]

Place's hands behind my back while police arrest me for being a nutter! ;)

[originsofoceania]

yes, he is a bit troubled isn't he...

[KazimirAntonIII]

Where can I buy your album? Possible at this stage?

[KazimirAntonIII]

This blew me away...great video...great message...great music. Well done.

[anaevasaida]

awesome, Jamie!!!!

[upstatelugh]

Bloody good work Jamie :)

[ibrowze]

Whaaat?, you mean they're lying to us? fuuuuuuck!!!!

I always felt something wasn't quite right but all my mates look at me gone out when I try to tell 'em about it. People smile at me in a sort of 'he's a nutter, I'll just humour him' sort of way when I talk to them about it. Any tips on how to effectively wake up the nation in a non violent way would be most appreciated. My only way out is to also write songs about it.

[shecaten]

this is superb. Fantastic professional quality vid. Love it. Lots more please.

[jacarosa1]

what can I say, this just blows me away!!

more please...