Experiencing Interruptions?

Repeat Hikari

The voice-over starts; ‘The whole world is an illusion. Whatever you see outside, the mountains, the lakes, the people, they are illusions, created by the senses and mind together’.

In Amelie Marcoud’s virtual world installation in Second Life (on Marina Münter and Megan Prumier’s G.B.T.H. sim), stacked televisions repeat images in endless loops. This video works, reworks and repeats her theme.

These televisions only exist on people’s screens. The looping images emphasise the equally looped animations of the trees and my own ‘human’ avatar – animations that seem ‘natural’ while half-watched but become as mechanical as an a Victorian automaton when looked at with care. Little stoppages occur between the repetitions as the animations return to the beginning. These short loops, potentially saying the same thing infinitely, makes a storyline irrelevant.

  • Tizzy Canucci
    Director
  • Amelie Marcoud
    Virtual set design
  • Tizzy Canucci
    Screen capture and editing
  • Little Glass Men
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Student, Virtual Reality, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 33 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 28, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Tizzy Canucci

Tess Baxter started working with the moving image in 2015, initially for work purposes in marketing. Then, as Tizzy Canucci in Second Life, she started experimenting with the possibilities of machinima. She has now produced 30 films, each exploring a different idea or a different way of telling a story. She has a wide range of influences, informed by her previous writing and editing experience. She is particularly influenced the concise forms of music video, animation and poetry.

Tess is currently a PhD candidate student/researcher in Contemporary Art at Lancaster University.

Tess worked with visuals and words for about 16 years before she starting making video works. Previously she used her own still photograph, writing and food research to produce a series of printed products and publish two books from her home in south Cumbria. Her main skill is as an editor, fusing together different narrative forms: words, images and sound.

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