Jodie Mack Movies

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

Direct animation with stained-glass contact paper, ink, and acetate.

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

A study in foreground and background made with a video camera, a set of handmade filters, and a canoe.

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

Paper sample books discarded and dumpstered by long-gone businesses undergo a series of sequential experiments in pattern, rhythm, colour and...

Made entirely by hand from cut marbled paper, this odyssey of remnants re-imagines a dream-sequence love.

Featuring crystallized magic markers and the kidney stone of a horse, the generously-curated mineral collection of Mary Johnson comes to life in a...

Discordant dysfunction down to the nitty griddy.

A bite-sized star punch exercise in direct animation with colored acetate.

Broken-hearted and mashed up.

Everybody's watching.

A series of chromatic intersections. Audience members form teams who respond to vertical lines by shouting "plaid" and to horizontal lines by...

A shiny otherworld of holographic reverie pairs dollar store gift bags and haunting resound, unfolding an effervescent melancholy in three parts....

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

Filmmaker Jodie Mack’s video animated short is the cat’s pajamas. Literally. The London-born experimental animator’s overlay of...

Hollis Frampton's T-Shirt Collection - animated!

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...

Shapes shake nervously. Lines sway back and forth. The sun sets.

Junk mail detritus forms a handicraft salute to new media.