Facing It

Feeling hope is the beginning of perceiving one’s political agency. Dealing with how to realize this agency is a struggle.

The stop motion video Facing It tells the story of a fluffy white creature in the process of clearing up its inner life and distress on the foothills of the alps. Calming down from the stressful reality of hoping as a force and form of resistance. Through stop motion animation, I attempt to shift the focus from human cycles to the apparent timelessness of larger natural cycles that go beyond humans, leaving them with a void role. The profound freedom of not having any important role in these cycles calms the creature down, only to later get back to its human/political spheres of influence. The title Facing it is posing a contradiction, as the intention is to stop facing things sometimes.