Movies: Jodie Mack

Tacky threads luminesce at a firefly’s pace, twinkling through remnants of chintzy opulence and gaudy glamour prestissimo brilliante....

Hollis Frampton's T-Shirt Collection - animated!...

A 2012 series of looped screensaver video art made by Jodie Mack...

Discordant dysfunction down to the nitty griddy....

A scanned and spinning document of roughly forty phenakistoscopes made from discarded cardboard. Complete with digital scan glitches and singing by Perry Como....

'Tie-dye' film study. Psychedelic patterns and colours mix on the various materials then explode onto the retina. The 16mm material perfectly captures the details of the materials....

Paper sample books discarded and dumpstered by long-gone businesses undergo a series of sequential experiments in pattern, rhythm, colour and text(ure). A call and response of flickering and lingering, this catalogue of catalogues remembers a tactile...

Filmmaker Jodie Mack’s video animated short is the cat’s pajamas. Literally. The London-born experimental animator’s overlay of recycled everyday patterns and materials has a homey, patchwork quality well-suited to its just-barely-domesticated feline...

The lyrics are from the musical "Finian's Rainbow," the carpets of color from Jodie Mack's inspired imagination. As with forebears like Len Lye and Oskar Fischinger, Mack's frame-by-frame animation translates line, texture and rhythm into pure kineti...

A pattern parade followed by calm....

Animated photo-negatives illustrate a WWII tragedy....

A maximum cycle that celebrates mesmerizing computer graphics made for looping on a small, decoupaged monitor. Created for the "Post-Scarcity" show at 65GRAND Chicago in June, 2009....

A collaboration with Chicago’s Judson Claiborne that captures the desert hallucinations of David Morehouse, former CIA spy and author of Psychic Warriors....

Broken-hearted and mashed up....

Junk mail detritus forms a handicraft salute to new media....

Everybody's watching....

A flurry of security envelopes casts spells on the screen....

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...

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

LOVER, LOVERS, LOVING, LOVE (2023) is similar to some of my other recent works, like the three films in the Wasteland series (2017-2021) and M*U*S*H (2022), in that it uses plants from my garden and nearby surroundings to excavate a multiplicity of ...