Movies: Jodie Mack

The interconnected circuitry. The aggregated flora. Alternating currents of the visual field....

A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric production and consumption alongside systems of visual and spoken language. The piece investigates recurrin...

Ultraviolet culminates a body of work (collage, animation, and pre-cinematic optical toys) that glows under blacklight, uniting my previous work in posters and textiles with my ongoing sublimation of art and craft. Somewhere between psychedelic poste...

A series of chromatic intersections. Audience members form teams who respond to vertical lines by shouting "plaid" and to horizontal lines by shouting "rad". This approximation of the sound was recorded at the Anthology Film Archives in February, 201...

Made entirely by hand from cut marbled paper, this odyssey of remnants re-imagines a dream-sequence love....

Eye candy as a special treat. Let Your Light Shine is the ultimate Spectrum Short film, a photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. A work in the tradition of the absolute animation film of the 1930s, which requires prismatic glasses to ach...

Interweaving the forms of personal filmmaking, abstract animation, and the rock opera, this animated musical documentary examines the rise and fall of a nearly-defunct poster and postcard wholesale business; the changing role of physical objects and ...

A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets, beaming baubles, and glaring glimmers. A bow ballet ablaze (for bedazzled buoyant bijoux brought up to boil)....

Rapid-fire florals and morning bird songs bridge interior and exterior, design and nature....

Broken-hearted and mashed up....

Named after a type of Belgian lace, this spectral study investigates intricate illusion and optical arrest....

A swimming study of paisley patterns traces this decorative motif from its origins in Persian weavings to appearances Irish quilting and American Counterculture. Extending on the stroboscopic tradition of anti-animation, this short material study fix...

A 28-minute musical that explores simultaneous disillusionment and hope in glorious color and song....

A shiny otherworld of holographic reverie pairs dollar store gift bags and haunting resound, unfolding an effervescent melancholy in three parts. Mesmerising RGB bling-bling for the cinema, featuring compositions for bowed vibraphone by Elliot Cole....

16mm, color, silent...

A quilted call and response. A battle of extreme extremes....

A bite-sized star punch exercise in direct animation with colored acetate....

Featuring crystallized magic markers and the kidney stone of a horse, the generously-curated mineral collection of Mary Johnson comes to life in a manual labor of love for the process of archival procedure....

Direct animation with stained-glass contact paper, ink, and acetate....

The third film in Mack's Wasteland series, Moons, Sons observes the rapid thaw of natural forms....