An 8-minute survival guide disguised as a scavenger hunt for kids who had to become their own heroes.
An eighteen-step scavenger hunt for people loneliest in their own homes. This animated video collage serves as a survival guide and an ode to the imaginations that protect us. Statement from Daniel Lobb, the Director: Our performance is first and foremost a resource for people who are isolated in unsupportive homes. It presents self-preservation strategies to those who rely on media and imagination to withstand in potentially abusive environments. The composition is based on the writer, Lexie Bean, growing up as queer, trans, and a survivor of incest in Michigan and Ohio, which we’ve all processed through our respective art forms. These iterations of inspiration and reformation ultimately led us to a video collage and sound-score that seek to buoy the main text: an ode to imagination, a scavenger hunt, a survival guide. Our hope is to bolster the viewer’s capacity for imaginative resilience.
Direction
Collage technique mirrors dissociation and reconstruction of memory.
Sound
Score builds interior worlds where safety can be imagined into being.
Writing
Bean's text reclaims scavenger hunt structure as survival ritual.
Director
Daniel Lobb
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film emerged from pandemic-era isolation, expanding Lexie Bean's 2019 book 'The Ship We Built' into collaborative video form.
Director Daniel Lobb intentionally structured the 18 steps to mirror traditional children's scavenger hunts, weaponizing nostalgia against its own failure to protect.
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