Jodie Mack

Blanket Statement #2: It's All or Nothing

Jodie Mack

A quilted call and response. A battle of extreme extremes.

Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project

Jodie Mack

Sharon Marney

Interweaving the forms of personal filmmaking, abstract animation, and the rock opera, this animated musical documentary examines the rise and fall of a nearly-defunct poster and postcard wholesale business; the changing role of physical objects and virtual data in commerce; and the division (or lack of) between abstraction in fine art and psychedelic kitsch. Using alternate lyrics as voice over narration, the piece adopts the form of a popular rock album reinterpreted as a cine-performance.

Posthaste Perennial Pattern

Jodie Mack

Rapid-fire florals and morning bird songs bridge interior and exterior, design and nature.

The Grand Bizarre

Jodie Mack

A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric production and consumption alongside systems of visual and spoken language. The piece investigates recurring graphic symbols and how their cross-cultural appropriation functions within a global economy.

Something Between Us

Jodie Mack

A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets, beaming baubles, and glaring glimmers. A bow ballet ablaze (for bedazzled buoyant bijoux brought up to boil).

Hoarders Without Borders

Jodie Mack

Featuring crystallized magic markers and the kidney stone of a horse, the generously-curated mineral collection of Mary Johnson comes to life in a manual labor of love for the process of archival procedure.

Let Your Light Shine

Jodie Mack

Eye candy as a special treat. Let Your Light Shine is the ultimate Spectrum Short film, a photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. A work in the tradition of the absolute animation film of the 1930s, which requires prismatic glasses to achieve the maximum result.

Persian Pickles

Jodie Mack

A swimming study of paisley patterns traces this decorative motif from its origins in Persian weavings to appearances Irish quilting and American Counterculture. Extending on the stroboscopic tradition of anti-animation, this short material study fixates upon discarded materials to examine the decorative and its relationship to the cycles of industry and evolving modes of production. - Jodie Mack

Curses

Jodie Mack

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

Wasteland No. 2: Hardy, Hearty

Jodie Mack

Different temporalities collide as we see frozen ice cubes of flowers from the first bloom from Mack's garden being reunited with roots from the very same plants.

Point de Gaze

Jodie Mack

Named after a type of Belgian lace, this spectral study investigates intricate illusion and optical arrest.

Wasteland No. 1: Ardent Verdant

Jodie Mack

The interconnected circuitry. The aggregated flora. Alternating currents of the visual field.

New Fancy Foils

Jodie Mack

Paper sample books discarded and dumpstered by long-gone businesses undergo a series of sequential experiments in pattern, rhythm, colour and text(ure). A call and response of flickering and lingering, this catalogue of catalogues remembers a tactile economy.

A Joy

Jodie Mack

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

Twilight Spirit

Jodie Mack

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

Undertone Overture

Jodie Mack

'Tie-dye' film study. Psychedelic patterns and colours mix on the various materials then explode onto the retina. The 16mm material perfectly captures the details of the materials.