The Genius of the Crowd – Chippa Wilson

2016 Jan

In these troubled times nothing is more scary than the crowd. American poet Charles Bukowski wrote a famous poem about it called “the genius of the crowd” .

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Sebastien Zanella spend a day with Nixon pro surfer Chippa Wilson, to illustrate this poem, showing a dark soul standing against the elements, an allegory of the freedom to be versus the majority who want you to remain an average human whilst controlling your thoughts.

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/150652687[/vimeo]

This short film is based on the article “L’eden et après”, published in Desillusion Magazine 50, Volume 2

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