Animation Edwin Rostron
Music, Voice, Text Supreme Vagabond Craftsman

'A large mirror in a silent room where you know there is a presence. You look into it but there is nothing.'

The film concerns liminal states, marginal spaces, and the fringes of reality. In these places everyday objects take on peculiar, unknown qualities, shapes merge and recombine in a state of constant fluidity and strangers impart cryptic knowledge that we sense is somehow deeply important. The film explores such matters in the manner of the non-conscious mind with which they so strongly resonate.

Visions of the Invertebrate is a collaboration between artist and animator Edwin Rostron and musician William Goddard AKA Supreme Vagabond Craftsman.

The film consists of pencil drawings scanned into a computer, which were then coloured in Photoshop and assembled into animated form in After Effects. The music was made mainly using tape machines and analogue equipment.

Supreme Vagabond Craftsman (aka William Goddard) has released music on Twisted Nerve, Analogue Catalogue and Invisible Spies Records, the latter of which he co-runs.