Disquiet

Disquiet is the feeling of anxiety. We all experience anxiety. The purpose of my film is to use art to connect my personal experience with anxiety to the universal experience of the audience.

When thinking about how to turn my experience with anxiety into a plot, two themes emerged. First, is the sense of being taken over or possessed by the emotion. Second, is the feeling of being pulled underground and buried.

I chose to express these themes in the setting of a forest. It's scary to get lost in a forest, the same way it's terrifying to get lost in your head. The forest also fit best with the solitude I wanted to depict and the eeriness of having no one way out.

Although there are two actors, there is only one character. I wanted the audience to know that there is only one character by dressing the actors similarly but I used colour to differentiate the emotion from the person. The actor in the white tee-shirt represents "the self" while the actor in the black represents the hostile experience of anxiety which possesses and untimely buries "the self" in the forest.

Disquiet was an interpretation of overbearing feelings becoming stronger than one's self and eventually taking control and leaving them in the ground to waste away.