THE IMMORTALITY OF MAN

length: 02:41 | subversive docu-narrative spoof mashup-thing

download: high quality (quicktime, 13MB), low quality: revver

This video makes the claim that man has achieved immortality through the creation of one of the most mundane, everyday objects of all time. It is an ever-so delicately spoofy and exaggerated examination of the absurdity of man's worldly creations.

• Available on Leader #15, a quarterly activist DVD publication
• Screening at the SPEMA 2006 Conference, during Vernacular Spectacular event
• Screening at the NewFilmmakers screening series, September 20, 2006
• Screening at ninth annual Hi Mom! Film Festival, June 2006
• Winner of first place prize (college category) at the Show Me Missouri International Film Festival 2006
• Honorable Mention at New York Short-Shorts Film Festival, May 2006

A comment: I did this in college. It was fun. I don't know what I was thinking. (That's a lie, I do know what I was thinking...) Hopefully it works for you. Maybe it will haunt you when you go grocery shopping. Maybe you'll start seeing all those plastic bags pop out of the streets of your neighborhood. But I doubt it.

Concept, direction, camera, editing: Brian Liloia