Getting Pregnant

This video is a presentation of my project SHE/MAN at school. Starring myself (Yelena Myshko), Jeffrey Singh and Marieke de Kan. www.yelenamyshko.nl I study fashion design and in the last assignment I had to invent a ritual for the clothes I made. The reason is that our forecast teacher thinks the world is changing from a material society into a sense society. Which means that things are no longer of value and experiences of the senses are more important. People want the aura of things back, a deeper meaning to their live, live healthy and contious etc. My collection was inspired by gender bending woman who become men, like Thomas Beatie www.youtube.com ) and I did a lot of research on that subject which led me to Alan Watts (whom I discovered through this video www.youtube.com ) talking about the west indian theory of nature. This movie is a collage of clips which illustrate the male/female issues and struggle between the sekses. The ritual I did and this video collage are based on the idea that Braman, the ultimate self, is pretending to be us for a long period of time. In the beginning of creation everything is beautiful, then it gets a little out of order and evil progresses so in the end the world ends and Braman knows who it is. With this video I was trying to illustrate the search for gender identity of human beings. I will upload the ritual I performed along with this video as soon as possible. All content of this video collage was stolen from youtube and myspace …