Mask Video

Can you say anything about the relationship of your film to the story of the Bronze Serpent?

In a way I think my video does relate to the story of the bronze serpent. The whole idea behind the serpent was that it was ironic for God to be healing them through a serpent because they were being killed by serpents. In a way I see this in my video as well. Typically, masks are seen as bad things, objects that hide who we are from the rest of the world. However, in my video, I am trying to connect the mask to the past and a more traditional use of it and want this to be seen as a good thing. So in a way I'm trying to show something that is typically thought of as bad, as good, similar to what God did with the bronze serpent. 

I would like to add my intention behind the video because it was portraying a different idea than my picture. In my video I am again trying to show contras between modern life and a more traditional life. I attempted to do so through the use of Tae Kwon Do, a traditional Korean martial art, and the use of traditional music. I was trying to show how sometimes in modern life we are lost and confused, like I was at the beginning of the movie, because we don't have any traditions that we believe in to guide us. However, tradition can create a sense of strength and comfort, because you have guidelines by which to judge life, and in the second half of the movie this is seen through my confidence in performing Tae Kwon Do.