Thirst - An Allegorical Tale

Using non actors and aspiring actors, "Thirst" is a student film written in a couple days and filmed in four hours in the parking lot of the Academy of Entertainment & Technology, Santa Monica, California.

The film is an ironic allegory which speaks to issues of consumerism, globalization, and addiction to carefully packaged corporate goods. It addresses tensions between desire and reality.

Although oil seems to be the one area where collective therapies are needed on a grand scale, we are also addicted in varying degrees to coffee, wine, soda, alcoholic spirits and bottled water.

Why Shell? Well, Shell Oil will always be symbolic of the long, sordid history of oil companies in the Niger Delta, as well as other oil producing communities across the globe.

SONGS:
Water no get enemy" FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI
"Red, Red Wine" UB40
"Mr. Follow, Follow" FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI
"Dead Man's Chest" ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
"ZOMBIE" FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• oil
• politics
• Fela
• Anikulapo
• Kuti
• Niger delta
• consumerism
• addiction
• shell
• student film
• water
• plastic
• wine
• tequila
• soda
• exploitation
• environment
• BP
• spill
• afrobeat