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Synthetic Biology

A luminous tree blooms defiantly within a barren simulation. This AI-free CGI short, created in Blender, employs a hybrid process involving analog feedback and organic simulation.

  • Vox Garbles
    Director
  • Conphaera
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    Fantasy, 3d Animation, Video Art
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 39 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 25, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Vox Garbles

Vox Garbles is a filmmaker, motion designer, and visual artist using analog video processes and 3D animation to probe memory, identity, and perception. His practice draws on material intervention, using handmade equipment, feedback systems, and CRT monitors to introduce unpredictability, distortion, and texture into otherwise controlled digital workflows.

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Director Statement

This project emerged from an ongoing exploration of hybrid image-making, where analog video processes interact with 3D environments.

The vibrant, pulsing animation of the leaves is created from video feedback produced by an analog video mixer. By feeding the mixer its own output, flowing, organic patterns emerge in real time. These artifacts are captured, digitized, and recontextualized as the leaves of a solitary tree in a retro-inspired landscape. The interplay between control and emergence is echoed in the structure of the growth simulation. While governed by predefined rules, the tree’s final form is never fully predictable. Each iteration unfolds through a combination of structure and variation, producing forms that feel both intentional and uncontrolled.

In editing, this logic extends through superimposition. Alternate cuts of the film are composited, allowing multiple iterations of time to coexist within a single frame. These overlapping structures generate new patterns of motion, color, and meaning that only visible within the context of the whole. The resulting visual depth and temporal complexity mirrors the branching of the tree and the simulation that governs its construction.