The United States of an Artist by Natasha Tsakos

A short film about the creative states, stages and spaces an artist embodies. Created by Natasha Tsakos www.natashatsakos.com Commission a Film ➤ www.natashatsakos.com/contact
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NATASHA TSAKOS is a renowned show maker, conceptual director, writer, performer and producer whose international career ranges from TED talks and the United Nations to a mind-boggling array of projects blending fantasy, technology, and liberating performances. Her work attracts foundations, philanthropies, and scientific & environmental organizations throughout the world. Natasha’s approach blends cinematic techniques, non-linear storytelling, music dynamics, and technology with live performance to make profound statements on how we live in an utterly original language. Natasha has created and performed for: The Discovery Channel , G20 Summit , Tribeca Film Festival , Super Bowl with Cirque du Soleil , TED Conference , Google , IBM Summit , The European Investment Bank , Frontiers Forum , The United Nations General Assembly . Since 2015, Natasha has developed a blueprint for digitizing and gamifying entertainment to generate and maximize collective action. In 2020, she was awarded the Knight Foundation New Work Award tasked to create a show that could endure the pandemic and thrive beyond it. On a mission to scale joy, she and an all-star team created CARABOOM The Greatest Carwashow on Earth www.caraboomlive.com. Natasha is passionate about the language of interactivity between the imaginary and the real, and creating extraordinary experiences on earth and beyond.
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TRANSCRIPT:
“ People don’t know what we do. It’s like we are possessed by a magical force and make things. And none talk about the people behind the scenes. There is a process. Everyone has theirs. Mine is a bit schizophrenic, I’d like to take you through it. (...) First part is great because you are not really there. You may appear as though you’re there, but everything important is happening in the background. (...) Your Subconscious is assembling sounds, symbols, patterns, making associations you could never conceive of. And you’re trusting it to filter millions of bits of information for the purpose of delayed creative reaction. Alongside, lives Madam secretary. She sleeps with one side of her brain only, types with two fingers, takes record of anything interesting (...) The secretary lives in a quantum state. Because the moment she captures the idea, the less she knows what it is. (...) Once in a while, The Fool comes knocking, reminding you this is all play. Teasing you to do this one thing radically differently. Try it, Stretch it, twist it, bend it, flip it. Do the opposite. The fool encourages you to make mis- (...) Once enough material has been filtered by the subconscious, compiled by the secretary, stirred by the Fool, the twins step in: one thinks in sounds the other in form. (...) They give ideas rhythm, choreograph metaphors and string concepts together to form new concepts altogether, and pass it to the editor. Who cuts, trims, times, corrects, refines, sacrifices good for great, great for excellence, the editor is never done -So the director takes over (...) Finally in walks the artist, at the very end of the process, playing one role only. The title is small, the position static, but mysterious. They’ll take it. That and the praise, the commentary, the questions, but the artist doesn't really know, because the artist wasn’t really there. The “artist” is the subconscious, the secretary, the fool, the twins, the editor, the director, the simulated audience, the summation of all the roles it embodies. The steps it takes methodically to get into a state of flow, the triggers it has collected, the skills acquired, the sensors sharpened, the real time systems it has engineered for a very particular goal (...) In a time where technology is disrupting almost every industry, calculating at speeds beyond human comprehension, operating on cookie cutter templates for the purpose of scalability. Standing on the toupet of morally questionable value systems, Where existential crises are unacknowledged and mismanaged. Where do we begin? “
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Love this, Natasha!