In 1979 US President Jimmy Carter spoke to his people about a crisis of confidence in the United States. People felt that their children's future prosperity had come under threat. Previously infinite energy resources had become finite. In an impassioned speech, Jimmy Carter urged his people to unite and tackle the energy crises together.
He lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan.
I heard this speech and felt a genuine voice from the past that strangely echoed with today. Echoes that spoke of the rising cost of oil, the pressure on our resources and our worries for the future generations.
I wanted to commemorate the address with an ethereal visual and audio track that would lend weight to the words, strip away any visual clues and allow the participants mind to enter a kind of hypnotic state. Hopefully a peaceful one.
I recommend you turn off the lights, load the video in HD, turn the volume up and let the visuals drain away the day.
The video is 11 minutes, 34 seconds long.
In making this video I recorded the last 11 minutes of Jimmy Carters speech. Time stretched a piece of orchestral music to it*. Created some soft ambient visual effects in an aim to create a detached numbing feeling and allow the mind to wonder.
*If anyone guesses what the music originally was before my treatment, I'll be impressed.
The music and imagery ties into some of my first memories which are from around 1979 to 1980.
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