Hypnosis

Poet: Hrytsko Chubai

Filmmaker: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

Essay: Nadia Matveev

Humankind is falling for media. Wasting all of our inner forces by overindulging the omnipresent information flow. The need to gain easy answers to all life problems, to find a quicker solution. Fast motivation, fast happiness, fast food, fast lifestyle. We’re in such a hurry, but simultaneously we’re behaving like robots. The video’s concept resides in slowing down by being hypnotized. By outer source having power over our bodies and souls. We stopped listening overall, we just hear what is told to us and do it. Thinking, actually choosing what you want to do, leads to criticism. You’re supposed to just know, to be a loyal cog in the gear mechanism that we are and not ask too many questions, not think too much. Doing what the media tell us, it shapes our society by slowly removing traditions and proper human values. The importance of family, friends, passion, and individuality is gradually declining. One of the reasons for us not fighting against it is the comfort. It is easy. It is fast. We have enough worries already, being human is hard, so what if we let someone else control this small particle of our lives? We can rest. We can close our eyes and see beautiful dreams. We can stay asleep...

If you start engaging in critical thinking, you’ll also start noticing how doomed it all seems. You’ll most likely think that you’re still asleep or would love to be so, but this is the reality. Being scared is exactly something we need, but we’re biologically programmed to run from it. It’s fight or flight, and everybody is making their own choice.