Natural Disaster and it's explanation.

 

 

After a violent storm causes a recreational area to flood, a group of young adults explore and entertain themselves with the fallout of the storm.


An extended PSA? A horror movie? A video blog dedicated to exploration? Yes to all. "Natural Disaster" is a visual experience contrasting what is naturally destructive versus the manmade disaster. Monsoon season in Arizona has been prevalent forever. Flooding is naturally occurring and it causes a destructive path that can lead to phenomena that was shown in the film. However, the completion of this disaster was not entirely a force of nature.

The young experience of going to the lake, the beach, a river, etc. is commonly destructive in itself. Littering, wildfires and even environmental destruction occurs constantly. Even in that, we teach ourselves to ignore the filth and carry on. The group in the video is simply a visual representation of what it means to be an American teenager; it's okay to blind yourself to the reality of horrible things happening around us. In the news sequences, the static provides a sheer curtain to that dark reality; we see it happening but we're too uninterested to give a damn. This isn't a case of just the Earth and the environment, it's also the violence and destruction around us in every aspect of our lives. We choose to live normally even if the horror is right in front of our faces. 

The material of curiosity comes in the action of actively seeking out something that was not meant to be seen. It is human nature to ignore warning signs 90% of the time.  


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