Jason McCoy's short "Are You Happy" asks questions about desires and what we as humans "are for." McCoy uses contridiction between the images and the audio to create a jarring effect that might just open our eyes to questions like: are we really happy? why or why not? what makes us happy in the first place? what affect do we have on our own happiness? how do we define and rate happiness? I can't promise that the asking of these questions will be pleasent, but I can promise that it will be useful, especially during the holiday season when happiness seems to be the theme, but also seems to be strangely elusive at points.