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Rave Function Collapse
16mm analogue film moving image
1 mins 21 secs.

Shot on 16mm film, this short film explores Foucault's concept of discipline through the symbolic actions of a man tearing up newspapers, removing his clothes, and destroying flowers.

In Foucault's theory, modern society controls and regulates individuals through disciplinary mechanisms. Newspapers symbolize the control of thought; tearing them up signifies resistance to this control. Removing clothes represents the rejection of socially imposed identities and the pursuit of the true self. Destroying flowers reveals the falsity of superficial beauty, expressing a desire to dismantle apparent order.

"Rave Function Collapse" depicts the individual's struggle against social discipline, seeking self-liberation and identity through destruction and reconstruction. The title signifies the collapse and disintegration of traditional social discipline in the midst of extreme revelry, with the individual seeking new order and freedom in the chaos.

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