PANTA RHEI (BIOPHIL I)
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The film is an experimental animated work investigating transformation as a fundamental condition of life. Inspired by biological microstructures and fluid morphologies, it is based on a custom procedural animation and simulation system that generates continuously evolving forms. The imagery oscillates between the biological and the abstract, evoking living systems without representing them directly. Referencing Heraclitus’ panta rhei, form is treated as a temporary state within an ongoing, looped process. Following the same logic, the work is created through an iterative, non-linear workflow in which a rule-based system developed by the artist unfolds over time. Artistic decisions respond to emerging behaviors, shaping form, motion, and temporal structure step by step. The work was produced without the use of generative AI tools.
music composed by Michael Ricar
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MEMORIES OF FOUNDING A DESIGN STUDIO
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An experimental animation that stages a fractured self-portrait of the artist and his former business partner, merged into a single figure representing their shared motion design studio.
Two identities collapse into one body, caught in a continuous struggle with each other and the accelerating conditions of their time.The film explores alternative modes of figurative storytelling, treating morphing, deformation and metamorphosis not as physical realism but as emotional states.
Bodies become carriers of stress, drive and exhaustion. Visual composition subtly references religious portraiture and icon painting, while the narrative is compressed into a pop-cultural, loud and action-driven aesthetic.
My Memories of Running a Two-man Motion Design Studio oscillates between autobiographical reflection, metaphor and experimental animation.music composed by Michael Ricar
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FLUID INTEGRITIES
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This series bridges specific methods of video manipulation with advanced digital simulation techniques.
Unexpected, often unsettling image interventions, deliberate fragmentation, and the recontextualization of objects and spatial structures form its core area of investigation.These technical interventions serve as a deliberate strategy to explore allegorical narratives.
Disrupting familiar viewing habits opens up new layers of meaning:
particularly through the radical transformation of the human physique, intense affects, mental states, and condensed micro-narratives are evoked and made tangible.To be continued
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MERITOCRATIC DELUSION
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A digital Sisyphean parable about the hollow core of the promise of achievement.
In an experimental soft-body simulation, the body becomes the site of rupture between the drive to ascend and physical exhaustion.
Conceived as a seamless loop, this visual essay reflects on the circularity of a society locked in a mode of perpetual self-exploitation.
2025
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CONSTANT UNVEILING
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A while back, this began as my first steps into the wonderful software Houdini.
I recently picked this stuff up again and somehow ended up wrapping it into a short, story-like loop about humanity’s twists and turns in thinking about how the world is made — or something like that.
2024
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PARADIGM SHIFTS
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A while back, this began as my first steps into the wonderful software Houdini.
I recently picked this stuff up again and somehow ended up wrapping it into a short, story-like loop about humanity’s twists and turns in thinking about how the world is made — or something like that.
2024
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AUTOMATIC DRAWINGS
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This series investigates drawing as an automatic process. Random scribbled structures serve as a starting point, which are then intuitively developed without conscious planning.
The resulting images emerge from the accumulated muscle memory and subconscious logic of a lifelong drawing practice.
The portrait drawings originate from blind self-portraits, executed without looking at the paper. This lack of visual control generates raw, highly expressive base forms.
In a second step, these forms are carefully elaborated through observational drawing and painting, resulting in a hybrid language that merges naturalistic representation with expressive abstraction.
2008
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