Cryptomnesia

2009, 10 minutes

Artist inadvertantly plagerises a live art piece.

A geeky, awkward quits his job as a junior banker after recieving one too many jibes about him from his boss. He leaves broken but builds up the confidence to create the piece of Live Art he has always dreamt of. Months later he creates this piece with the help of many volunteers, paint, and dead fish and chickens. This would not have been possible without the help of his friend Poppy who then becomes his love and rock. The film ends with Blake and Poppy visiting a art gallery, here Blake discovers the art piece 'Meat Joy' by Carolee Schneeman, here we discover that Blake watched the piece as a child and as it moved to the back of his psyche he has now completly plagerises the piece! A case of Cryptomnesia.

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