Thanatos (2015)

Follow Vincent, the host of the meal, as he dissects the egos of his dining companions and delves deep into the world of capitalist villainy and morally oblivious hedonism. While Vincent's stance on his party's vulgar indulgences is considerably apt, it does perhaps reveal more about his own personal reservations and misanthropic tendencies than those of his company. Serving as a narrative recontextualisation of the 'Vanitas' art movement, this short film explores the transiency of human life, with strong aesthetic references to Willem Kalf, Harmen Steenwyck, Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio & Rembrandt. Vanity, gluttony, temporary knowledge and greed all form a rigid scaffold on which to pin Freudian ideals about the human drive, as well as more subtle ones surrounding religion and sociological hierarchy.