Genesis (2017)
6 minutes, 40 seconds
Genesis re-imagined in an enigmatic otherworld. Ideas latent in the original myth such as the double, pandora's box, apollo vs. dionysus and determinism vs. free will are distilled in a minimal testing ground.
The game of snakes and ladders is an allegory for the dilemma of free will/determinism in Genesis. If Adam and Eve didn't have free will or morality and everything was predetermined, how can they be held accountable for sin? It is similar to a game of snakes and ladders where there is no real choice or strategy involved, you just roll the dice and embrace your fate.
In this version, snakes represent temptation and the ladders lead to enlightenment/heaven (in the Jacob's ladder sense). The board extends ad infinitum so they could play it forever but nothing would happen, so Eve tempts Adam to go down the snake with her, forgoing the path thats been chosen for him. They land on the number 13 and then get 'hungry' for their own free will and eat the apple as a sacrament, realising they don't need to play by the rules anymore.