Kakotopia 3/3

KAKOTOPIA: from the greek 'kakos' (bad, vile, ugly, unhappy) and 'topos' (place). Dystopia, Anti-utopia.

"The elite can enslave the masses. A worse scenario: the masses can get so used to slavery that they end up making of it, their lifestyle. And even worse, both things can happen at the same time"


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DISCLAIMER :The present work was made with didactic intentions, aiming to create an assemblage of still, photographic images, according to different principles, techniques and methods of cinematographic montage. The editor and producer of this piece (me) in no way claims authorship or ownership of any of the audiovisual material used. Most of them are on the public domain or under copyleft, while other may be screenshots used for educational purposes and others are free for use or used under permission.
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This film is dedicated to an age
where the human being is actually concerned
about knowing himself and the world he is in;
and don't being just another cog in the machine,
manipulated like pawns by the interests
of politicians, organized religion,
the media and corporations.

Through the years,
many warned us about
the degeneration and (self)destruction
that we were marching towards.
Meanwhile, every day,
we watched the world fall apart,
and when something made us 'reflect' about it,
we just nodded and said
something had to be done,
just to go on living
under the same old paradigms and lies of always,
without the tiniest interest
to think outside the box,
turning our backs on the fundamental problems of our era,
closing our eyes to reality,
and to our own inner worlds.

We lived into the lie,
and there, we were comfortable,
and if any motherfuckers came about
to complicate our existences,
we crucified them.

We were good citizens,
we had our minimum wage,
and we were happy with having
food in our bellies,
money in our pockets,
and sex in our beds.
To Hell with everything else!
Burn every book!
at least they'd have some use that way.
Stay calm, you idiot,
Haven't you realized?
The end of the world,
was a long time ago.
Life doesn't exist anymore.
We are the dead.

ADSERT-6 in memory of ADSERT-0

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I am deeply sad,
I am sad for my generation,
who is emptied of any human substance.
I hate my time
- with all my forces -

there, the man dies of thirst.

I hate this time,
- universal totalitarianism -
where the man becomes
soft, polite and quiet cattle...

it is absolutely necessary to speak to man.

We cannot be satisfied only by refrigerators or
politics, or sports,
one cannot any more.
one cannot live without poetry, color,
or love.

The robot man,
the termite man,
the castrated man from his creative capacity,
who, in his remote village,
cannot create one dance even any more
nor a song,
the man who is fed
by a standardized culture,
as an oxen fed by hay,

this is the modern man.

There's only one problem, one there,
all over the world
to return to the man's spiritual concerns...
a spiritual significance.

Adapted from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Letter to General X
(Oujda, Algeria, June 1943).


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thanks to:

wikimedia.org
(for public domain images)

http://www.youtube.com/user/jcmegabyte
(for butterflies time lapse images)

http://www.youtube.com/user/cancercity
(for NO_SIGNAL)

David Leeson
http://www.myspace.com/davidjleeson
(for photographic work)

Matthew Bowden
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/44435
(for 'Beach Buddies')

Suvi S.
http://photo.net/photodb/member-photos?user_id=1077179
(for photographic work)

Esther Seijmonsbergen
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/500139
(for 'Two Brothers')

pdtnc Probably Due To Network Congestion
http://pdtnc-stock.deviantart.com/
(for photographic work)

Alejandra Kalnisky
http://aleksandra-stock.deviantart.com/art/aleksandra-stock30-3008548

NOTE: NONE OF THESE PEOPLE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ADSERT MOVIMIENTO OR THE IDEAS PRESENTED IN THIS FILM.

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[jcmegabyte]

Nice job! I like the way you gave credits to the sources of your material - not a lot of artists bother.Keep up the good work :-)

[adsert]

Thank you! I actually have an issue regarding copyright and all that, and think it's a concept we have to re-examine with all the changes the computer age has introduced, but even when I don't respect that concept, I respect and appreciate the work of others, and if that works helps me to a work of my own, I will give it its proper credit. To Caesar what is Caesar's. Again, thanks a lot, and keep up the good work you too, I love your videos!

[adsert]

In the spirit of Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World', The Adsert Movimiento presents 'Kakotopia', a short film that, through a compilation of artistic and historic images, explores the history of mankind and its current situation, presenting to the observer the questions and decisions about where are we really going to with our lifestyle and what are we willing to do about it. What kind of world are we building?

[adsert]

En el espíritu de '1984' de Orwell, y 'Un Mundo Feliz' de Huxley, The Adsert Movimiento presenta 'Kakotopia', un cortometraje que, a través de una recopilación de imágenes artísticas e históricas, explora la historia de la humanidad y su situación actual, planteando al observador las preguntas y decisiones sobre sobre adonde nos dirijimos realmente con nuestro estilo de vida y qué estamos dispuestos hacer al respecto. ¿Qué clase de mundo estamos construyendo?