deformography— Witter Bynner
Nadja Auermann (photo: Peter Lindbergh)
We are but a dream; and it’s as I dream our dream that I find you, and catch your glimpse through shades of blue, in each of the countless ways that I see myself dying. […]
— Jean-Paul Sartre
MOON (2009) is the feature debut of director Duncan Jones. It is a sci-fi drama starring Sam Rockwell as the lonesome astronaut contracted by Lunar Industries to oversee their lunar mining facilities. There is no live communication with the Earth, and for a period of three years, Sam Bell’s only real-time interaction is with GERTY, an intelligent supercomputer designed to attend to his daily needs.
Sam’s isolation eventually begins to take its toll, to the point where he’s sure he’s beginning to hallucinate; all he wants is to return to Earth, to come back to his wife and daughter. Suddenly, surprising events unfold - and he’s confronted with some peculiar questions. What would you do should you meet a previous version of yourself? Do you really have something to come home to?
— Maxwell Maltz
Oni Ayhun is Olof Dreijer, part of The Knife, swedish electronica brother-and-sister duo. Several 12” vinyl and digital releases without any credits or background information started circulating around mid 2010; but eventually his identity was discovered after a number of live performances.
His music is highly conceptual, evoking intricate landscapes that come across the speakers as beautifully weird as you might expect.
Official video for the song “Islands” by The xx. This simple, ingenious choreography from the minds of Kryptic Movement should leave you with a strong feeling of déja vu while also effectively conveying a story.
Mike Winkelmann is a graphic designer currently living and working in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. He has released a number of experimental digital short films under the name Beeple. His work has screened at onedotzero, Siggraph, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Optronica, dotMOV, Visual Music Marathon, and many more. He also performs live visuals for a variety of bands including Minneapolis-based NOBOT.
For more examples of his work, visit his official website or his Facebook profile.
Doll Face. “A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.” (Andrew Huang)
Fever Ray is the alter-ego of Karin Dreijer Andersson, female half of the acclaimed swedish avant-pop duo The Knife. Her debut solo album is a critical and commercial success around the world, and was praised for its innovative use of deep, distorted electronic tones in conjunction with Karin’s unmistakable, pitch-manipulated vocals.
Today - it is what it is
And that’s nothing
Nothing at all.
Your gaze - the gloom
That I see
It tells everything to me
And I’m damned to fall
Our sorrows,
Taken by the handful
Consumed, they are
Turned into something new
- And I’m not saying
it’s not true -
However know
That I still save the best for you
(Should you ever want it back)
Scintillation is a short film from the mind of Xavier Chassaing. This innovative graphic artist combined poetic imagery - in the form of over 35,000 photographs - with groundbreaking stop animation and projection mapping techniques. The result is a visually overwhelming display of color, lights and motion.
“I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn’t born, or dreaming, for which no one was born. Detesting both, I choose neither; but since I must on occasion either dream or act, I mix the two things together.” (Fernando Pessoa, in The Book of Disquiet)
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