NIGHT TAPES - TO BE FREE [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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Video directed, edited and shot by Owain E. Morgan
Producer : Hannah Shepperd
1st AC: Gian Calipa
Runner/driver: Andrea Ratti
IPad hologram technician and BTS: Becky Donnelly

this song is about layers of perceptions.

Sartre gives a famous example of someone looking through a keyhole, to illustrate his concept of "The Look", in Being and Nothingness.

" Let us imagine that moved by jealousy, curiosity, or vice I have just glued my ear to the door and looked through a keyhole. I am alone and on the level of a non-thetic self-consciousness. This means first of all that there is no self to inhabit my consciousness, nothing therefore to which I can refer my acts in order to qualify them. They are in no way known; I am my acts and hence they carry in themselves their whole justification. I am a pure consciousness of things, and things, caught up in the circuit of my selfness, offer to me their potentialities as the proof of my non-thetic consciousness (of) my own possibilities. This means that behind that door a spectacle is presented as "to be seen," a conversation as "to be heard."
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But all of a sudden I hear footsteps in the hall. Someone is looking at me. What does this mean? It means that I am suddenly affected in my being and that essential modifications appear in my structure - modifications which I can apprehend and fix conceptually by means of the reflective cogito.
First of all, I now exist as myself for my unreflective consciousness. It is this irruption of the self which has been most often described: I see myself because somebody sees me - as it is usually expressed.
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Only the reflective consciousness has the self directly for an object. The unreflective consciousness does not apprehend the person directly or as its object; the person is presented to consciousness in so far as the person is an object for the Other. This means that all of a sudden I am conscious of myself as escaping myself, not in that I am the foundation of my own nothingness but in that I have my foundation outside myself. I am for myself only as I am a pure reference to the Other. " -Sartre

Working and writing parallel to Sartre (as well as inspiring, editing, and likely developing his ideas) was Simone de Beauvoir. The idea of The Look features heavily in her great feminist work, The Second Sex.

other fun things to read :
Donna Haraway : "A Cyborg manifesto"
W. E. B. Du Bois :"The Souls of Black Folk"


Lyrics:

To be free, baby
Free within yourself
To be free, baby

I had to go
I had to leave to get away
The structure had been given to me
Instructions were inhabiting me

To be free, baby
Free within yourself
To be free, baby
Electric in your realm
Endless possibility
Of us in synchronicity
To be free, baby
Free within yourself
In symmetry

Free within your realm

Easy
It could be so easy to be
If I didn’t have to fight within
Inside of me
A spectacle
The dream of being capable
Got me merging with machinery
The machine in me

To be free, baby
Free within yourself
to be free, baby
Electric in your realm
Endless possibility
Of us in synchronicity
to be free, baby
Free within yourself
In symmetry

To be free, baby
Free within yourself
To be free from within
Your realm
To be free from within

To be free from within
To breathe from within
To be free from within

To breathe from within
To be free from within
To breathe from within

To be free, baby
To be free, baby
To be free, baby

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