My Personal Journey

John DeVeaux is a second year Film, Video and Integrated Media student at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Classifying himself as a Digital Artist with future aspirations to work in either the film or video game industry, his work focuses on combining a wide range of media including crowd sourcing, data capture, film/video, installation, storytelling and web based material.

My Personal Journey tells the story of the day John's mother died from ovarian cancer in 1994 and features the artist providing a solitary monologue over a black screen with white text providing an ongoing narrative, as he describes the mental images that haunt him to this day.

Inspiration for this video comes from Derek Jarman's film, Blue, which showcases the director looking back on his life as he was losing his sight and dying from AIDS. The film is 79 minutes in length and features a single shot of saturated blue covering the entire frame of the screen.

My Personal Journey is also part of an ongoing digital art project dealing with personal storylines about significant or memorable Journeys in peoples respective lives and can be viewed at:

http://personaljourneys.wordpress.com

Category:

Film & Animation

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• emily
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• university
• video
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• son
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• anniversary
• death
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• sky
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• story
• narrative
• british
• columbia
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• sourcing
• student

[evilmaster09]

My mum might die, she has a tumor in her brain and if it grows she will die :( will get the result in a few weeks

Thx for sharing your expierience, really inspired me :)

[katieyurychuk]

Thank you for sharing this with all of us.