[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.40,0:00:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[STEPHANIE SYJUCO]\NIf we're to look at the complexity of\Nour contemporary culture, Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.20,0:00:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our political moment, Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.63,0:00:12.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our lived realities-- Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.41,0:00:17.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want my work to be as complicated as well. Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.55,0:00:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That there isn't just one way to look at it-- Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.40,0:00:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,depending on your perspective,\Nyou'll see it a different way. Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.20,0:00:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I also wanted to inhabit contradictions. Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.12,0:00:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Alright, fierce. Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.64,0:00:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, looking at images of protest, Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.54,0:00:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we created these composite characters. Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.66,0:00:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so they're fictions. Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.70,0:00:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black-clad individuals are usually\Nassociated with a very direct action. Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.44,0:00:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it a character that one finds problematic Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.36,0:00:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or is it something that might elicit even\Nsome empathy?