Production Notes & Addition to Synopsis
Pop-culture is more than entertainment, it shapes our reality; it constructs and deconstructs stereotypes, it catalyses real-world violence but also collective transcendence. a.o.k began with some urgent questions: Can this framework be broken and put back together on our terms? What do we lose or gain when we play pretend? a.o.k took a year and half to edit. It was a fluid and sculptural process that required listening not just to the material but also to the moods, sensations and emotions during the making of the film. The film uses high resolution cameras, low resolution iPhone footage shared on whatsapp and is all interwoven with hand drawn and digital animations to convey the sense of the confusion, energy and melancholy the cast and crew were going through as they performed the roles of the pop stars and producers they admired. The result of a.o.k is the space between
pretending and becoming, it is a complex admission of the difficulties we have with the stereotypes of pop culture.