Tara Clews

Burnout

Burnout is a documentary derived animated collage about the experience of burnout using bodies, voices, drawing, photography, film and animation with the intention of bringing solace to those suffering burnout. With this phenomenological approach, using voices from conversational interviews, photography of urban textures from wellness walks and real rotoscope-rendered animations of participants I seek to uncover this topic of taboo conversation by sharing and showing a collective universality. Burnout aims to envelop the audience with an identifiable, disquieting but ultimately comforting and cathartic experiential journey with a narrative composed of many voices sharing personal but familiar feelings, hypnotic music and undulating repetitive movements, exploring the experience of burnout and how to mitigate it. I aim to make the unremarkable moments of exhaustion overtime remarkable and bring awareness to the detriment that burnout causes for the productivity of humanity. This piece explores themes of mental health and wellness, experience, emotion and reflection, digestion, repetition, connection, disconnection, movement and meaning.Music by Andrew La Tona Created for OCAD University DPXA Capstone with advisors Wrik Mead, Veronika Szkudlarek, Luke Painter & Gustavo Cerquera-BenjumeaSpecial thanks toSali Tagliamonte, Allan Clews, Duncan Boyce, Mai Le, Thomas Phillips, Sabrina Vasquez, Megan Mayoral, Jackie Justein, Veronica Ing, Sally Shaar, Steve Lavery, Jordan Circosta, Ruby Kakoutsis, Nikolai Mcleod, Hana Osman, Mia Mioc, Ben Wood, Lennie Ciglen, Dunja Ilic, Heather Barclay, Douglas Thompson, Bita Nasseri, Clement Forrester, Beth Warrian, Andrew Latona