This piece makes great use of symbolism through natural sound and images to help portray what it feels like to feel trapped.
Throughout this piece, there are voices of people telling you about their experiences of feeling trapped, though you never see them, you get a glimpse into their life through feeling trapped.
The entire video goes from one image to another that symbolize the feeling portrayed by the characters describing their circumstances and emotions. For example, when you hear a man describe calm, the video shows an island covered in trees with really calm natural sound, but when people describe feeling trapped you hear sounds like shackles or doors slamming.
This story isn’t about a single person’s experience with feeling trapped, it’s a collective representation of what it feels to be trapped. People’s voices come in and out of the story, without any identifying features in the audio or visual pieces of this story, yet you can still build an image of them in your mind, and in a way, are able to follow each of their stories.
The audio in this piece is so strong it could stand alone without the visuals, but the images add so much to each metaphor.
Feeling trapped is such an natural human feeling, and this video covers the entire range of feeling trapped, from feeling trapped at work, to being trapped in a wheelchair. I think this is a piece that almost anyone can connect with and relate to.