All the world's a stage - A neo cinéma vérité style documentary around Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" monologue and Carl Jung's archetypes set around the 10th year anniversary of the Toronto Reggae Band - The Human Rights, at the Redwood theater in Toronto, in the spring of 2018. It was written, directed by The Count in his signature style. The documentary was shot in 8K using the RED WEAPON and features an OST also produced by The Count. The documentary primarily discusses the nature of identity in today's world and how it relates to several philosophical, psychological and literary works(primarily Shakespeare).
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The documentary deconstructs the ideas of archetypes and how they seem to work given the nature of people's lives. It comprises several philosophical, existential, psychological, cosmological ideas discussed in due detail. While most documentaries are about people, this one is also about people but on a far more fundamental level, featuring a certain strange depth that is offered to the audience. One of the themes brought out through this work revolves around actors playing several parts within a single play, the play being our lives. Note that this isn't the case in a standard stage play. Most actors play a single role or part from beginning to end, well at the very least, within an act.
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The documentary has discussions about upcoming technologies such as special speakers for the deaf, music making software for kids and VR tech for the disabled. It also discusses the origins and operations of the band, the theater and other people related to the show. It features several JUNO award winning artists. It also features one Visual Effect of a Hypercomplex Fractal which was mathematically generated over a month and converted to a visual form to represent the birth of the universe.
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The film discusses the problems faced by the women of the First Nations communities. The film also discusses the problems faced by women in general in our current society. It also brings up gender identity and offers varying perspectives about this matter based on several liberals' speeches and contrasted with Dr.Jordan Peterson's stand on the matter. Dr. Peterson's work on Friedrich Nietzsche and Carl Jung's archetypes are core to the study on the people in this film and transcends his involvement in the gender identity wars. This work is generally neutral regarding the latter. The documentary presents noble organizations such as Amnesty International, The Redwood and the Ontario Arts Council, which has funded for 10 years and continues to fund and support the Human Rights band.
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The style of the director, The Count, is inspired by several great directors over the past century but mainly centered around Ozu, Miyazaki, Ray, Godard, Iñárritu, Anderson and Nolan. While his directing style usually only extends to his niche genre which is retro-futuristic sci-fi, this documentary is a testimony to how a style that's impressionistic enough, that it can be used across the board to make a documentary regarding psychological and philosophical concepts around a Toronto reggae band.
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Picture Technician: Wil Wong
Production Supervisor: Pranatharthi Narasimhan
Script Supervisor: Joel Colaco
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Production: April 7th, 2018
Post-Production: June 1st, 2018
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