AIR | ©Nkosinathi Khumalo "When I was young I used to imagine fish as birds that flew underwater. I mean both the sea and the sky are blue, a human can't breathe underwater and well... A fish can't breathe above water. Mammals such as the Killer Whale or Orca seem to redefine nature as they breathe air but live underwater. We humans have been trying to redefine nature or alter it into our own design, a design that has continued to endanger our co-inhabitants on this planet. For this video piece I decided to use 'found' archives as well as footage I took of an Air show. The footage of the Orca is filmed inside a zoo, taken out of the wild by its captors. Who would probably say they 'found' the Killer Whale in wild. The decision to combine the footage together was motivated by how an animal as wise and social such as the Orca is put into this ARTIFICIAL tank alone and with little room to move. Killer whales are found in all oceans, from Artic and Antarctic regions to tropical seas. Humans can't physically fly and yet we invented this ARTIFICIAL bird that makes it possible for us to experience "tankless" freedoms around the world. The Whale is filmed on a square format, and the Air Show is filmed on a wider format. The scale of the Orca (inside the frame) is more predominant than the scale of the aircraft. The sky has more than enough space for us. So reducing an animal's lifetime movement from being able to travel around the globe to just a cubicle that is just a few feet wide. Isn't that what we humans call a jail?! A place were we detain other humans who we deem to have done wrong doings to society. So what has this beautiful intelligent highly social creature done?! We keep them in captivity so for our entertainment. Animal life is not for human entertainment. Zoos might have had a place in society historically, when they were used to observe and study these exotic animals. Although today, Zoos are irrelevant in our human society. As were Human Zoos in Europe, places like Brussels in Belgium. #sowetophotographer #instafilm #filmmaker #concepualfilm #instadirector #johannesburgzoo #fuckseaworld #fuckzoos #fuckprison #killerwhale #orca #film (at Johannesburg Zoo)
