Why wait for hope when love and rage are right there (a rage that remains, a love that endures)

Materials

4x sound pieces (ranging from ,2mins - 18mins).
Hi8 Video with subtitles. 

Background

How do we carry on with our lives while knowing of an ongoing genocide? How does our perception of everyday life shift as we teeter on the edge of collapse? How can we remain unchanged, indulging in frivolity and distraction? 
"Why Wait for Hope" explores the role of the sublime in resistance. This audio-visual album consists of 4 medium-long-form audio pieces, each paired with a short film and original text.

Description

The sounds are drawn out and layered; a looped guttural growl of a church organ, fusions of bright electronic drones and uncanny orchestral and layered shimmering arpeggios. The images point at the world around us persisting in routine; A bird glides over a lake. Dusk light cast shadows from a tree beaten by gales over tarmac. A woman dances alone in a shadow. The images are produced on Hi8 tape - a format ordinarily used for family home-video in years-gone-by. The images have been subtly time-stretched, exposing the limits of the format. 
Finally a text glues the sound, video and the conceptual element of the project together. A poem, with sometimes-direct references to genocide or climate collapse (we must not shy away) appears as subtitles throughout the video.