M'es en abyme

Navigating the depths of sorrow following a relative's heart-wrenching diagnosis and a spate of school shootings across the U.S.A., multidisciplinary artist Jeffrey Delano Davis seeks solace and rediscovery through the art of Digital Automatic Writing. This innovative practice transcends traditional journaling and seamlessly blends drawing, sketching, and animation as Davis pours his emotions onto the tablet.

In this mesmerizing experimental film, Stephen King television mini-series The Langoliers is compressed and transformed through hypnotic black and white collage animation that meticulously reconstructs and reshapes its supernatural drama to an eerie and profound effect.

In the course of a real estate search a poem is produced. Images play around this drift between properties.

Set in 1980s Sweden, an immigrant boy navigates a chaotic world of identity, love, and belonging. A kaleidoscopic journey through fragile places where acceptance lives.

Inspired by damage prediction simulations for produce in transit Theothersideofthemuffledwall applies a filtered soundtrack to a ground that acts as a vibrating visualizer effecting a group of mixed fruit.

Integrating motion-captured hand gestures with 3D animation, The Greatest Arrogance follows a series of toy blocks assembled and dismantled beneath an ultraviolet bug lantern that at times becomes the video's central subject.

Set within a 3D-rendered kitchen, Hidden Hiss depicts three scenes: an induction cooktop, a countertop FM radio, and a window above a sink. As tension accumulates, the familiar domestic environment gives way to a swarm of unseen energy, noise, and electromagnetic activity.

Undark reinterprets familiar depictions of radiation through a series of 3D-animated happenings, examining the enduring association between radioactivity and a particular shade of luminous green.

A and N, a couple of peasants create an informal metallurgy workshop in the outskirts of Bogotá in the hope of a better life. The social, environmental and organic consequences they must endure in order to adapt to the industrial capitalism that storms Latin America affects dramatically their relationship and their history.

The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historical patterns of discrimination and oppression might be either repeated or overcome in a reversed gendered world. It challenges the viewer to confront their own assumptions and biases, and to consider the possibilities of a more equitable society.

Bits of found film and different types of animation illustrate a classic chase scene scenario: A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters.

Through meticulous cut-up, collaging and stop motion, Nico Vassilakis makes words dance across the screen, moving our eyes in all different directions. This video poem is dynamic and colourful, and brings into question what happens when we 'see' a word - where do we distinguish between the image a word forms in our minds, and the image it forms on a page or screen?

A group of lemons wired together as a makeshift battery sits under the moving light of a rapidly passing day. As the light fades, a mini cabin settles among the fruit and draws power from the improvised circuit.

Trapped between the glass of a television screen and a color bar test pattern, a hammer drifts under shifting gravity.

A burning log is reconfigured as a kitchen timer and wound to two minutes. Its countdown unfolds in real time.

A tanker car is reconfigured as a kitchen timer and wound to two minutes. Its countdown unfolds in real time.

A dustmite is reconfigured as a kitchen timer and wound to two minutes. Its countdown unfolds in real time.

Within a 3D-rendered junction box, Buncha Hells stages a series of animated experiments drawn from historical and popular depictions of electricity.

A table vise applies pressure to a series of everyday objects in a digital environment of shifting physics.

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