Mock-documentary Series/Web Shorts
“Save me Gaia. Incorperated”
Part "People Like Us" and Part "Spinal Tap"
A series of five, 5-8 min,
shorts about different crazes/fashions in personal home/office/public spaces protection; following these normal practitioners doing odd professions and
the public they interact with and processes taken to get the job they were hired to do done.
This is taking the piss out of complacent societies that seek the 'new'/next thing and their westernising of older exotic traditions for their Kitch values only, like the mid 90s call for Feng-sheui as a tool/answer in creating understanding/harmony for one self in the
home/work. -As well as- Taking a sideways look
at the trend in individuals retraining in skills/tools to fit niche and emerging markets/jobs
There is an extension of
reality to the series; A fear of the 'unknown' that is being warded can be very real but they way about this world is slightly slapstick. A caricature of reality wherein we could see a house being
fitted with a ‘burglar alarm’ then see the next-door house being burgled moments
later.
Part. 1 Voodoo
We follow Harvey, an ex
accountant, who now has his own business, spiritual protection, and performs voodoo rituals in his local Shropshire area. Harvey
is a 40 something, overweight and balding. He drives an old mini and whenever
on the job dresses in full Voodoo regalia.
Harvey has found a window in
the market and retrained in voodoo at the local collage; so far he has a
licence and specialises in homes that face SOUTH because any other direction “requires
more juju” and the bank loan hasnt been approved to help expand his chakras to contain that power.
This episode follows Harvey as
he blesses a newlywed couple and their home having just moved into the area,
they saw his advert in the newsagent and wanted a clean slate to raise a child
in.
Part. 2 Witches
We follow Carron, a tenth
generation witch, as she goes to corporate gigs to put charms of protection on
businesses and army troops. Carron is a no-nonsense woman who explains how the market
has opened up thanks to economic crisis and the ‘War on Terror’.
Carron Talks about how the
market has been flooded with ‘cowboy mystics’ and her pride in her own lineage;
there has always been a practicing witch in the family except for 1940s during
the second world war (the war office preferred to invest in Radar rather than
a 100 foot Gen stone hung around Big Ben).
This episode follows Carron as
she drives to a local army barracks to put a charm on the troops about to ship
out; ending on her dancing, semi-naked(?), around a cauldron at night (which
has advertising stickers on it) placing a curse on the accounts department of a
rival business to which she has a protection retainer contract with.
Part. 3 Healing Crystals (grow your own)
This is Simon’s story, he is a
council waste technician who specialises in cleaning out homes that have bought ‘Grow your own Healing crystals’ packs and have let them grow wild. In the vein
of a person who has let their garden grow out of control and it’s encroaching
on a public walkway (vines weeds etc).
Simon takes us round the most
common areas that are prone to natural crystal growth (rubbish dumps where
people have thrown out old crystals ETC) and the one house that he and his team
had to demolish because the crystalline construct had started growing all over
the persons home (like ivy but more permanent); trapping them inside.
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