Brooklyn Film Festival: The Greatest Night of Our Terrible Lives; Anthem

Adversity breeds great art, so could Trump's presidential years produce the next Renaissance? Well, that's what the Brooklyn Film Festival would have us believe...

Created by TBWAChiatDay New York, the campaign kicks off with The Greatest Night of Our Terrible Lives, which draws a parallel between the Great Depression of the 1920s and the birth of swing dance via a comic exchange between a couple who try and outdo each other with tales of their miserable lives, all the while expertly jiving around the dancefloor.

Anthem [below] drives home the message with numerous examples from history, like blues music emerging from the Mississippi floods and inner-city urban degeneration producing graffiti art, before cutting to a clip of Trump's victory speech and letting the audience draw their own conclusions.

The films were directed by Aaron Stoller through Biscuit.