wishmaking™
30 minute video
Stars, green screens, hands, princesses, fruit, magic and candy: within an absurd and colourful landscape, objects are blown up larger-than-life, surfaces condense repeatedly and documentary and constructed imagery co-exist and collide. Wishmaking™ explores illness, fantasy and wish fulfillment through the lens of the artist's own experience receiving a wish trip to Disney World as a child, following two years of treatment for Lymphoma. The film delves deeply into corporate philanthropy, exploring the concept of wishmaking as brand identity, digesting the many ways corporate visual languages co-opt the universal—and potentially radical—gesture of making a wish.
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