a.k.a. — “also known as”, an alias, a front, a smokescreen. This short video poses the question: how will we respond when the day of universal surveillance arrives? The answer is simple: never be the same person twice. Video by: Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski Written by: Josephine Starrs Sound by:...
Concept & Direction: Leon Cmielewski & Josephine Starrs Producer: Josephine Starrs Design & Animation: Leon Cmielewski Programming: Adam Hinshaw Sound design: Panos Couros 3D: Don Smith & Craig McPherson, Banff Institute, Canada Artist statement from Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski, September 2013
Writer's Block is a film about automata, machine intelligence, inspiration, hallucination and sleep deprivation. Synopsis A sleepless writer proves no match for a typewriter and other rebellious domestic objects occupying his table. The writer is attacked by the malevolent machine, leaving him unconscious and tattooed with words, overwhelmed by the tools of his...
