Movement Manifesto--Beauty in the Everyday

Our Manifesto:

• Good art takes the everyday, the typical, and presents it in a thought inducing and inventive way
• Good art explores new approaches to something ordinary.
• Good art creatively blends conventional with experimental.

• Good art takes the everyday, the typical, and presents it in a thought ind

Artists' Statement:

In our manifesto we really wanted to conceptualize the significance of finding beauty in typical things or actions and depicting them in an interesting or unique way. We were really inspired by the grandeur found in Revolution (Life Cycle of a Drop of Water) by Chris Turner and Plastic Bag by Ramin Bahrani. As the title of each signifies, they are each about something simple and that we associate with every day. But through the creative eyes of these directors we as viewers are given new insight into the life of each of a simple drop of water and an average plastic bag. We, too, wanted to depict something very typical, but in a way that causes viewers to stop and really appreciate the magnificence something taken for granted. Breathing is definitely something that most of us take for granted; in fact it's so common that most of us can probably go all day doing it and not even think about it. In the exposition we have a girl under water drowning herself; withholding the very thing that grants her life: breath. We juxtapose this several times with underexposed clips of people using breath in various forms. This creates a stark contrast between one and the other: the first no longer wishing to breath, the other finding great joy in their use of breathing. Whether it is blowing out candles, catching your breath, or using a cool breath to cool down a drink, breathing is pretty spectacular and certainly under-appreciated. The last two scenes juxtapose a sigh of relief and choosing to come up for air and live. The multiple shots of types of breaths were to signify how whenever we are without air all we can think about is breathing. The scenes also gradually become shorter in length as the film progresses, in a similar way that breathing increases as stress increases. And then, finally, at the end we slow it down as the the sigh of relief is exhaled and the girl takes a much needed breath. Through this we hope that the viewer will view breath with more appreciation and maybe recognize its significance a little more regularly.