based on some input from class I re-edited the self portrait and DECIPHERED it below

There is several messages in this short film. There is the idea that I am searching for peace in a world of chaos. There is also the concept that your actions in this life carry through to your childrens lives, and that how we are will affect our children in their future so be careful how you are with your children. Also in the short - when I am grabbing toward beautiful things, which represents the search for inner peace and beauty, when you hear that my instructors tell me to think more critically it turns out I am reaching for a blackberry plant. ... there are lots of little clues and deeper meaning.