15.3.20 COVID-19 and Anthropocene

This is a blog post written during the Easter holidays, where my plans for the entire Easter holiday were dashed and I was in a state of panic due to COVID-19. In early March, many of my classmates chose to return to China because of the rapid development of COVID-19 in the UK, so I was faced with a dilemma: Go back to China or not, and worried about it for a long time.

For to me, this kind of panic also fits into my discussion of the Anthropocene. The COVID-19 outbreak began in China when a person who ate bats, a wild animal, became infected with the virus carried by the wild animal and eventually allowed the virus to spread from person to person. I think it's also a kind of feedback of nature to human beings. Human domination of the earth has put human beings at the top of the food chain. Also, human activities seem to be involved in every aspect of the ecosystem. The daily surge in the number of deaths and confirmed cases in the world, which represent every individual living on this planet, is undoubtedly a great crisis and challenge for humanity. But is there a profound rethinking of human behaviour in the aftermath of this crisis? However, there is no doubt that this epidemic has affected everyone on the planet, including the lockdown, the stay at home, the closure of public places, the reduction of flights. In my opinion, perhaps after experiencing this crisis, human beings should rethink the way they get along with the earth and how to make rational use of the resources on the earth.

About unit 2.1

During this stay-at-home vacation, I continued my research and watched almost all the disaster movies I mentioned in my previous blog. And captured some footage from these films to help me with this video assignment. At the same time, I also read some interesting videos on the video website, which may help me to complete the assignment better, such as some video clip skills and how to make the video perfectly blend with the background music. Also, I found the short film LIMNO/NYC produced by Tim Sessler on Vimeo, which is a visual representation and abstract Exploration of New York City, the video is full of images of the City's ruins, Empty places, and solitary skyscrapers, Iconic streets and Bridges standing still. And this short film visually conveys the uncertainty and panic during the pandemic. I like the visual impact brought by this short film very much, and I want to edit some scenes in this short film into my video assignment.

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IN LIMBO / NYC-Tim Sessler