Sara Boldt: Genesis

Adam and Eve, William Strang, c. 1915

Writes Sara Boldt (’20):

For my final project in Literary Traditions with Professor Leon Steinmetz, I created a more modern day Genesis. Instead of discovering a land untouched by humans, two individuals encounter two objects which symbolize larger themes or issues in our society today.

The video depicts a boy (actor is Jackson Boldt) and a girl (actor is Hannah Boldt) in an almost empty desert. There they come across a television and a mirror. The television represents technology. The mirror represents vanity. The video is meant to show temptation and the dangers that can come from it as well as our culture’s growing infatuation with technology and self-image.

I directed and edited the piece. I shot it at the Rhode Island desert in West Greenwich. I composed the music.

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