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Film by Inferstudio

Concept + Direction: Nathan Su + Bethany Edgoose
VFX + Editing: Nathan Su
Sound Design + Score: Sarah Su

x 1 - 'Hydroponics'

We live in a world of instant, hyper-personalised consumerism, where a thousand thousand odysseys are made by data and objects every second of the day. In the not-too-distant-future, the city itself is a giant fulfilment centre. On reclaimed, re-wilded and digitally augmented land, pieces of the world are grown, dug up, melted, moulded, soldered, packaged and distributed by sentient machine networks. Everything is counted; every box on every shelf has its place in the system – and so do we. Maybe these production and distribution technologies will bring the world to our door without the carbon-miles, shrinking the world to a city and its surrounds. Or maybe they will disconnect us from our environments and turn the ‘source’ into a thing of myth. All this, to fulfill our smallest desires — say, a single egg for poached eggs on toast.

We were invited to participate in Pausefest 2020's call for short animations on the theme of 'New Odyssey' as part of their annual Motion Response program. This is a high resolution still produced alongside the animation we were invited to submit. (*Since this was an invited project but not paid, we were unsure whether to submit to the Commissioned or Non-Commissioned category but an email from Jeff Mottle noted that we should submit to the Commissioned category).