BEER IS THE GUN - REFRAME
"The Intentional Degradation of a Memory (2017)
The story of my Post traumatic Stress Disorder and how I am trying to overcome it. Talking therapies such as NLP and CBT urge you to think of an image of trauma, drain all of the colour from it, shrink it, and run it backwards. I attempted to reframe my own childhood trauma by employing these techniques. I hired three different groups of actors to help me to deconstruct the memory in a way that I couldn't control. Each group were given the same 4 props and then told less and less information about the trauma. They then told their own stories with the props and information provided. Every time that the story was retold by the different actors, it became further from the truth.
I edited their stories together with found footage of the time to create
a different story.