#INTRODUCTIONS (Original Shia LaBeouf Motivational Video) Full Length HD
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Date: 06/02/2018

This is the full video in HD. Best known for it's "Just do it" performance by Shia LeBeouf.

It’s the latest piece of performance art LaBeouf has done with British artist Luke Turner and Finnish artist Nastja Säde Rönkkö.

The backstory

When you first encounter the Shia meme, your first instinct is probably to laugh yourself silly — at him. He has had so many nutty brushes with fame, art, and the law that his goofy overacting here is certainly worth mocking. Right?

As it turns out, he’s not as clueless as he seems. He’s actually performing. He was scripted and directed in this clip.

LaBeouf was participating in a video art project called #Introductions for Central Saint Martins, a London arts college.

Each student in the class was directed to write a short script for the actor to perform on camera in front of a greenscreen. According to the Guardian, this was the assignment:

“Submit a piece of text lasting up to 30 seconds or no more than 100 words. This can be as poetic, abstract or literal as you like — with the emphasis on expressing the feeling and tone of the work being introduced.”

LaBeouf wound up performing 36 of the pieces in a single day in a Los Angeles greenscreen studio. The various segments involve him wearing a motorcycle helmet, using a British accent, and standing on his head.

It’s the latest piece of performance art LaBeouf has done with British artist Luke Turner and Finnish artist Nastja Säde Rönkkö. You may have heard of a previous collaboration from these three: LaBeouf showed up at a movie premiere with a paper bag over his head bearing the phrase “I am not famous anymore” written in black marker.

In any case, the resulting 30-minute string of performances is very peculiar but strangely compelling. You can watch it here.

The students processed the video in various ways, resulting in a really-not-that-interesting finished product that was screened at the arts school’s bachelor of arts graduation ceremony.

In other words, the hilarious Shia rant video is actually just a two-minute excerpt from the art students’ project.

It would have been much juicer and funnier and more satisfying, of course, if we could mock LaBeouf for being crazy and unaware. But, in fact, he intended to make a performance piece. It was shot in front of a greenscreen on purpose — and released with a Creative Commons license, meaning “anyone in the world is welcome to work with this video for free.”

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-real-story-behind-shia-labeoufs-hilarious-120497282774.html