This film was only available during the Computer Baroque online exhibition, which ran from 14 April-14 July 2009.

Animation produced and directed by Chris Landreth
Soundtrack Robin Bargar
Particle/Volume Visulisation and Software Dave Bock and Tom Palmer
Editor Robert Pattison
Narrator Viviane Schlette
Produced at the North Carolina Supercomputing Center

A very early animated study by the future Oscar winning animator Chris Landreth. Here we see the roots of Landreth’s approach of perverting the latest high end 3D animation to fabricate Kafkaesque, jigsaw monsters with jarring incongruities.

Chris Landreth started his adult life as an engineer, working in the esoteric world of Experimental Fluid Mechanics, until he decided in 1990 that doing animation would be much more fun. Shortly after this he joined Alias Inc. (now Autodesk), where he created two animated short films, the end (1995) and Bingo (1998). Both films explored a unique kind of animated storytelling, based on human psychology as much as photorealistic character animation. He calls this approach 'psychorealism'.

Chris continued this approach in his animated documentary Ryan in 2004, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Copperheart Animation. Ryan received over 60 international awards, including the Academy Award in 2005 for Best Animated Short Film. He has just completed a new film with the NFB, entitled The Spine.