FURIOUS FOOTAGE

Scratch Video is a style of film-making which first appeared in Britain, in the 1980s. It involves editing together scraps of found-footage taken from mainstream media, including newscasts, advertising, popular shows, etc. As a form of 'outsider art,' scratch videos are designed to make a statement, and are often politically radical.

I worked alone on this scratch video for college, which was initially meant to put across my misgivings about - how to put this - the way everything has just, sort of, got 'out of hand'. Intensive farming, over-fishing, massive waste, that kind of thing. It is not meant to be in any way discriminatory against large American people - which I used at the beginning of the video to represent mankind's consumption in general. Of course I chose images for their impact; with the intensive farming footage though, I tried to avoid some of the incidental cruelty and mistreatment that goes on, as I thought it could infer a slightly different point than the one I was making.

I couldn't resist using of a clip from a cinematic film (Taxidermia) - probably against the rules.

The music is the theme from Cannibal Holocaust - which is not intended as a statement against eating meat, although I can see how it could be taken that way; I guess this kind of video is inherently open to interpretation, and maybe that's the point.