Project Primer: Scrollings of Doom

Origins

Video art — "A year measured in cruelty." Made with original photos, stock photos, iMovie, and guitar. A visceral, emotional creative piece from 2022.

Structure

• Video stored in Vercel Blob, played via HTML5 <video> element
• Poster image for thumbnail before playback
• Minimal page wrapper

Agent Guidance

• This is video art with a raw, emotional tone — respect that in discussion
• Guitar soundtrack is original
• Not a technical project; it's purely creative expression
• In the foreground stands one of Anthony Gormley's cast-iron sculptures from the Another Time series - the one at Folkstone Harbour Arm in Kent
• Instead of the sea, the sculpture looks out over a desert that stretches into the distance
• Beyond the horizon, large clumps of dirt and earth slowly scroll into view - the image looks like a still from an explosion
• After some time, the scrolling image is seemingly 'swiped' out of view, only to be replaced by the exact same image with detail again scrolling slowly into view
• Despite the dry desert scene, the statue and the metal structure it stands on are covered in reassuring, vibrant, bright green algae - it looks hyper-real, almost artificial
• The guitar plays a loose, low-fidelity reconstruction of the progression from 'Seasons of Love' (a song that asks "how do you measure a year?") with flattened fifths in every chord
• The video was made in April 2022 during the early stages of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• The video was made in the year of the 100th anniversary of 'The Waste Land' by T. S. Eliot, a poem which begins "April is the cruelest month"