Drive with Persephone

Overview

The ancient myth of the goddess of rebirth’s abduction told through ‘drive with me vlogs’ and sousveillance. Drive with Persephone is part of the anthology 'I Went to a Party Alone' in which YouTube vlogs of random, daily life are recast as dramatic events imbued with cinematic qualities and mythic allusions. When the hard cuts and juxtapositions reveal a landscape of oppressive social control, the vloggers’ mundane normal soon gives way to the surreal. Seemingly innocuous recordings are fraught with foreboding as the vloggers who yearn for freedom, love and self-expression find themselves unable to escape society’s haunting bondage. instagram @miru.fiyu