After attending The Nova Convention in New York City in 1978, I was inspired by Brion Gysin to write permutation poems. This experimental film is based on a permutation poem I wrote in 1979. It explores selective viewing by overloading the brain with different presentations of the same poem. The poem was read by Ann Marie Guidry in 2024.
Demi-Demons is an essay film about the contradictions of contemporary existence, which separate us from our natural instincts, opening abysses within us. The glorification of the hermaphrodite, the hedonism of virtual realities, the search for new levels of physical attraction and forms of higher consciousness, ambivalence towards sexual reproduction, these abysses embody the existential struggles inherent in navigating the terrain between instinct and enlightenment in a rapidly evolving world. Demi-Demons is made and animated from vintage photos and collages, creating a surreal and thought-provoking atmosphere.
G3N3SIS is an experimental AI-assisted animation that tells an alternative, female-centered, mythology. It will be a journey that begins with the creation of the world and the black Eve by a female deity, it follows the exile of women in the patriarchal world by the jealous biblical god, the women's revolution and liberation, the creation of the new type of men and it ends with the apotheosis of the androgynous, the divine Hermaphrodite. The image is inspired by classical European painting, the overall style is post-renaissance yet hyperrealistic. Unexpected associations, metaphysical atmpsphere, biomorphic connections of organic and inorganic, mystical symbolism, mythological figures and references, constant transformations and dark eroticism. All these elements fit perfectly with the new artistic possibilities of the cutting-edge techniques we have used.
"Jack Kerouac, Jacques Derrida and some Mexican food, plus dancing." - WWD “I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.” – Bob Dylan
Glass House is a video-sonic work, a disruptive immersive experience. It's the glass Tower of Babel, a kaleidoscope with hypnotic beauty. It's a sensation, mixed with attraction and repulsion, borrowed from science fiction novels.
A woman’s love for dancing becomes her solace and torment, mirroring a toxic relationship. Once her happiness, it now consumes her, trapping her in a futile pursuit of joy.
In the world of childhood, reality is mixed with dreams and curiosity outweighs fear. It is a world where the magic of small moments are like gems woven into the grid of the daily routine. A film is a metaphorical statement about childhood and parenting in a dark time in which we live.
The self-destructive nature of seeking love and validation from external sources.
An inconvenient truth: the Western fashion industry stands on forced child labor in the Third World. Will you still consent to it? FASHION VICTIMS 2.0 is the animated recreation of the mural painted by ESCIF in January 2022 in front of a well-known fashion store in Valencia. The painting exposes our passivity towards child labor and its harsh conditions in developing countries. The animation short film brings to life the people painted on the wall to show their alienation and the nonsense of our unsustainable consumption habits. FASHION VICTIMS 2.0 is also a tribute to Valencia street art and to ESCIF: an artist concerned about a most uncomfortable reality.
Two friends, lovers, soulmates, a pair of two, searching and ultimately finding each other. This pair traveling between worlds and changing forms, expressed through 15 styles of animation, by 15 animators from across the world.
Through animation, music and VO, the creator looks back into her past and deals with the sexual abuse that she experienced when she was 9 years old. She realizes that self-hatred, depression and anxiety are not her path.
Distance can be different. How is yours? An exploration of distance in different dimensions of perception and understanding. Valeria and Gregor disconnected by borders ( be it geographical, physical, or mental) are sharing their experience of distance as forest encounters - Gregor from a forest of Bavaria and Valeria from the forest next to her apartment in Chisinau. The forest is regarded as a site where one can explore ecology and interconnectedness but also as a site to seek the path beyond traumas, depression and loneliness. Thoughts, sounds and forests intertwine, connecting and making the distances collaborative. In technologic era, How close can you be without a physical touch?
An aggressive battle unfolds between red and dark blue. The borderlines between the colors vibrate with tension as they fight for their lives.
Finding himself stranded in an unfamiliar afterworld, inhabited by fellow dogs of different circumstances. Fufu meets and befriends other dogs in an attempt to navigate back to his home world. Encountering a mage and a trans dimensional ocean entity on his journey, he finds out that he needs to collect dreams for a bargain for his passage. Listening and learning dreams of his friends along the way he finds himself unable to dream on his own, his previous life’s needs and desires all met. Thrust into a whirlwind of his past, we are left to wonder if he could return home.
Through each fold of her veil, a Turkish woman recalls her past and her choices in the form of a poetic monologue: she is assailed by her doubts, about her desires and her struggles, and eventually finds herself. Mihri Müşfik (meaning Tender), the first female painter in Turkey who lived an extraordinary life and went against the tide, is the inspiration for this film.
Taking inspiration from 20th-century avant-garde experiments in graphical sound generation, the entire image in O/S functions as an optical soundtrack. Abstract motion becomes sound. What you hear is exactly what you see.
Shot entirely from an apartment on the 36th floor of a high-rise building, the images in this experimental animation survey large parts of Hong Kong’s cityscape, drawing attention to the individual lives hidden inside its buildings - together alone, collectively sequestered. Initially recorded in 2020 during lockdown and completed in 2023 with the advantage of critical distance, TWENTYTИƎWT (“Twenty-Twenty”) attempts to encapsulate the darkness, confinement, and uncertainty of the year of the global pandemic.
Separation, fever dreaming, and a deflated celebration.
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