Jonah Garrett-Bannister
Filmmaker | Visual Artist

'Into The Dolls house'

Short Film

 

Welcome to The Dollshouse. We hope you will enjoy your visit with us today.

 

The Dollshouse is a place of discomfort and fear. People never want to end up there, yet when they inevitably do, they find it a hard place to leave. After all, it's easy to lose yourself in its suspiciously similar corridors and hypnotically dangerous ballrooms of death; many find it easier just to stay. It is a place that we all visit from time to time in our lives whether we know it or not. Not all of it is sinister and shadowed - But it is the most dangerous place you could allow your mind to wander in. You may see your worst fears… or deepest regrets, or sometimes something comical. It is a place of limbo. A place of your dreams. A place for your mind to try to make sense of reality. It is The Dollshouse.

 

‘Into The Dollshouse’ explores the lack of community in humanity - I notice how people seem to watch much more than they do. They stand like cardboard cutouts helplessly seeing the world slowly eat away at itself. We accept that chaos of the modern age, and dance with it to our death.

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This film is a progression from my still image photography project 'The Dolls house'