Re: Intars' gallery
alien, more menacing but on very, very, very nuanced way something is missing and not so pronounced there. And because of very small eye openings and corrected shattered glass pieces grown-into-skin-and-bone tissues on the right one, where they are more sharp, more prolonged, it made me feel that right one came closer to final look, not loosing much in alien look to whole thing. So i will incline to agree with Tartan (you helped me confirm my bias on right one for now).
Yes, internet getting more unwelcoming. I do start getting feeling of growing uncertainty of publishing tricky socially-conscious dark art, also in the coming future especially
Taron, as for story and this dark character - maybe it will be like spoiler to you, but no - this character his meaning-wise isn't conceived as one doing some direct violent stuff to anyone,
like biting, attacking some human or other life forms directly. Also he doesn't represent a manifestation, a representation symbol or corrupted, conspired, ultra-rich persons or human worst
individual sum. I "found" this character from different "angle". He is in no ways directly tied to humanity at all specifically. What he is tied to, attracted to, thou, is a total sum and concentrations of existing fears in any organized, collective and industrialized life form anywhere on cosmic level. That is what attracts this deity and something else that comes with him, and his shape gets formed by such civilizations hidden history, mental images, nightmare snapshots, physics, time and little bit more...
Artistically speaking - if society experiences extreme levels of fear, hidden, suppressed, revealed or unrevealed, consciously recognized or unrecognized, no matter which ones, this deity is starting to get attracted to such society and his borderland tunneled into, connected with fear infested society on some surreal, hallucinatory 'channel' and events get rolling (for the film ). Probably i stolen this concept from Nightmare on Elm street artistic concept of Freddy Kruger and Silent Hill nightmare world's dimension which was real to those trapped there. Well, this Director would be probably like Freddy or Pyramid Head but without their gloves,violent force and active killings. It's the whole place that sort of takes life away from those entrapped in there. He more like observes, supervises and feeds off such a place dynamics and survival-fears.
I like surreal depths in art. I know, its kinda hard on sanity of viewers and often may be not even funny but only depressing
But that's not the point to terrorize viewer , its more to give secure guidance and travel-tour through interesting depths of some dark, socially-conscious art, if i may say so.
As about those small groups of people. Well, yes, may be so. Truth is generational. Times are harsh now and with their goods. Without engineering and technology, which seemingly continues its evolution (probably and mostly thanks to bright technical aspirations from science and inventor folks pure curiosity) irrespective of obsolete economic model ,originating from 1770's, without much true modernization root-value-wise in it, i guess with our modern time elites due to their companionship, friendship to all and their competencies we would be back to feudal times without electricity and internet and uninterrupted food supply. I guess that yes, many distortions may fit into small, recognized and investigated box at the end of the truth-revealing story some day in future society's history lessons.
Good term - art being jester I guess, you nailed it, Taron. My whole imagined thing that is Fear Society can be looked as total jestery, so i see it
Didn't imagined myself to coin it this way.