Faculty of Design

Graphic Design

Wuzheng Cui

The Point of Pointlessness

Conflict is the cornerstone of independent thinking and creativity. In this generation, we are influenced too much by the information explosion. In front of all the knowledge and information that we can access, we are losing the conflict from ourselves. The conflict comes from the unknowns, when we are facing the unknowns, we will start to question and we will try to answer the question even the answers are leading us to the unknowns that we have not known yet. The process seems pointless and frustrating but we cannot deny this pointlessness and escape from it. We must accept the nihilist of life and the conflict rooted in ourselves so that we are capable to keep exploring for something new. This short film is showing a conversation between two parts of one self. The character in black symbolized the part of self who is afraid of the unknows and nihility, the conversation is "pointless" to him. After the aggressive action of the character in black, he overcame his fear of nihility instead of avoiding or escaping it.