Epic Fail (2017)

Name: Epic Fail
Director: Greg Barth
Released: 2017-07-19
Duration: 5 min
Cast: Jahvel Hall, Mathilde Steuillet, Lolly Adefope, David Elms

Director: Greg Barth

Cast: Jahvel Hall, Mathilde Steuillet, Lolly Adefope, David Elms

Runtime5 min

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In a time where post-truth news divides and conservative politics fails to lure in young voters, a extraordinary vote for world peace has dramatic consequences. Epic Fail is an avant-garde essay that questions how we perceive truth, information and politics, seen through the dual lenses of our real and virtual identities. Moved by the political events that shook 2016, the film is inspired by Jean Paul Sartre’s “Nausea”; or how we can develop visual embodiments of our emotions as a catharsis on how to deal with reality.

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Fans of avant-garde, politically-charged cinema will appreciate the bold visual style and thought-provoking themes of director Greg Barth's 2017 film Epic Fail, which draws inspiration from the philosophical writings of Jean-Paul Sartre to explore how we perceive truth, information, and politics in the digital age.

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Failure is the social concept of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and is usually viewed as the opposite of success. The criteria for failure depends on context, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. One person might consider a failure what another person considers a success, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. Similarly, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation.