What It Might Look Like
A Thematic and Emotional Progression
1. The Death March - Emotions of shame and sadness are evoked. The video sequence features adults in business suits with clown faces carrying an ornate and colourful and heavy coffin on their shoulders, until it becomes too much for them and they pass it on to a group of casually attired parents. They also struggle with the burden. This is Mother Earth they are carrying. The load, the burden, the responsibility after decades, if not centuries of inaction, is huge. Finally, though they try their best, even the parents cannot carry the coffin any more and, reluctantly, they pass it over to their children, children of all ages and sizes, who heroically take their turn, though it is clearly a massive, impossible burden for them to carry.
This is a visual rendition of inept climate policies and what some have called "our generation's borrowing from future generations." Some say it is "unfair." I call it a massive crime against future generations.
2. Ma - Then we take a lighter view, celebrating the bounty and beauty of nature. The visuals will consist of stunning visuals of dramatic vistas of fields and mountains and deltas and the like. As in the previous piece, the core musical inspiration derives from Europe, home also of the industrial revolution and the beginning of our sinking into this disaster.
3. You Feed Us Fairy Stories - The world is upside down. The adults - or most of them - are playing games (territorial, sexual, political, all ego-based) while the real "adults in the room" are children (and adults with child-like hearts) like Greta Thunberg - and she gives the feckless "adults" a scolding. The video will feature hip hop artists/dancers in a modern-day industrial or urban dystopia.
4. We Are The World - Based on an American standard, this celebrates our common humanity, but there is an edge. Adults sang that 80s trope and though they sang "We are the children," they most certainly were not and since that date, the adult captains of industry and masters of congress have failed and continued to fail their children and future generations. There is a twist in this version.
Children are actually be singing it this time, but there is a gnawing feeling that the status quo, the old platitudes, no longer serve us. The children are telling the adults the simple, bald facts that they need from them a future and moral leadership/guidance, "We are the ones to teach, to feed and nurture." There is no time to screw around, they are saying.
The original We Are The World came out about forty years ago. In another forty years, with business as usual, most of the adults will be gone and today's young people will be stuck in an environmental holocaust. The video features the choir. They are singing, but their patience and good nature is being tried to its limits.
5. The Time - This is angry. At heart, the lyrics are hopeful. But the delivery is scornful and taunting of the cowardly and unimaginative adult "leaders" and followers, the majority of people of voting age who either just don't get it or pretend they don't. The video will present more hip hop dancers/singers in a modern or future climate nightmare scene.
6. Finale - This is where it all comes together, but I don't think we can get here, or bring our audience here unless we first make them feel the sheer desperation, the horror, the utter insanity of the situation. Who knows how this whole climate crisis will shake out? It may be too late to turn back the clock to "normalcy." The train to Armageddon may have already left the station. If we win this at all, it is going to be by a hair's breadth. But, as an art piece, I want to encourage people to hope. Mother Earth smashes out of her coffin and the dance of life resumes, maybe.
This is a visual rendition of inept climate policies and what some have called "our generation's borrowing from future generations." Some say it is "unfair." I call it a massive crime against future generations.
2. Ma - Then we take a lighter view, celebrating the bounty and beauty of nature. The visuals will consist of stunning visuals of dramatic vistas of fields and mountains and deltas and the like. As in the previous piece, the core musical inspiration derives from Europe, home also of the industrial revolution and the beginning of our sinking into this disaster.
3. You Feed Us Fairy Stories - The world is upside down. The adults - or most of them - are playing games (territorial, sexual, political, all ego-based) while the real "adults in the room" are children (and adults with child-like hearts) like Greta Thunberg - and she gives the feckless "adults" a scolding. The video will feature hip hop artists/dancers in a modern-day industrial or urban dystopia.
4. We Are The World - Based on an American standard, this celebrates our common humanity, but there is an edge. Adults sang that 80s trope and though they sang "We are the children," they most certainly were not and since that date, the adult captains of industry and masters of congress have failed and continued to fail their children and future generations. There is a twist in this version.
Children are actually be singing it this time, but there is a gnawing feeling that the status quo, the old platitudes, no longer serve us. The children are telling the adults the simple, bald facts that they need from them a future and moral leadership/guidance, "We are the ones to teach, to feed and nurture." There is no time to screw around, they are saying.
The original We Are The World came out about forty years ago. In another forty years, with business as usual, most of the adults will be gone and today's young people will be stuck in an environmental holocaust. The video features the choir. They are singing, but their patience and good nature is being tried to its limits.
5. The Time - This is angry. At heart, the lyrics are hopeful. But the delivery is scornful and taunting of the cowardly and unimaginative adult "leaders" and followers, the majority of people of voting age who either just don't get it or pretend they don't. The video will present more hip hop dancers/singers in a modern or future climate nightmare scene.
6. Finale - This is where it all comes together, but I don't think we can get here, or bring our audience here unless we first make them feel the sheer desperation, the horror, the utter insanity of the situation. Who knows how this whole climate crisis will shake out? It may be too late to turn back the clock to "normalcy." The train to Armageddon may have already left the station. If we win this at all, it is going to be by a hair's breadth. But, as an art piece, I want to encourage people to hope. Mother Earth smashes out of her coffin and the dance of life resumes, maybe.
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