Vanitas portrays four, unemployed characters in the future: a singer, a what-naut, a gamer and an office building. Revolving around the characters’ observations, it wonders about the transient and often meaningless seeming nature of human activity.
The video was shot in an empty office building situated in the center of Rotterdam. It borrows from the genre of science fiction its aesthetic and narrative methods as tools to discuss on the relation of human lives to new technology and disappearance or redefinition of work, as well as timeless matters such as loneliness, alienation and mortality.
The video was shot in an empty office building situated in the center of Rotterdam. It borrows from the genre of science fiction its aesthetic and narrative methods as tools to discuss on the relation of human lives to new technology and disappearance or redefinition of work, as well as timeless matters such as loneliness, alienation and mortality.
Vanitas
in collaboration with Anni Puolakka
HD video, 17 min 38 sec, 2021
Cast: Olivia Le Roux, Raluca Croitoru, Teddy Coste
Soundtrack by Miša Skalskis
Supported by AVEK and Kone Foundation
in collaboration with Anni Puolakka
HD video, 17 min 38 sec, 2021
Cast: Olivia Le Roux, Raluca Croitoru, Teddy Coste
Soundtrack by Miša Skalskis
Supported by AVEK and Kone Foundation