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Jenna Marbles

Video 2 (4m 8s) is shot like a Youtube video blog. I am animated and facing the camera which I am holding free-hand while I interact with my cat. I wanted to make a series of video works that subvert the Youtube video blog style. The music used is taken from these video blogs and distorted and reversed to make them sound unsettling. The video is designed to make you experience a version of the parasocial relationship I found myself having with a content creator called ‘Jenna Marbles’, whose videos I became addicted to.

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They would be about her life and what she was doing that week. I could experience her life through these videos. Like a simulation that allowed me to escape my own pain. In my video, the elements of my own painful experiences are both erased and replaced by something upbeat and escapist, and yet are present in the weight of the disturbed atmosphere. I found that unemployment made my world shrink and I found relief through the internet and social media, which then became an intrusive fixation - and I wanted this video to convey that sense of relief and claustrophobia. 

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