Jodie Mack Movies

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

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

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...

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

Discordant dysfunction down to the nitty griddy.

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

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

The third film in Mack's Wasteland series, Moons, Sons observes the rapid thaw of natural forms.

A 2012 series of looped screensaver video art made by Jodie Mack

A maximum cycle that celebrates mesmerizing computer graphics made for looping on a small, decoupaged monitor. Created for the "Post-Scarcity" show...

16mm, color, silent

Culled from instructional publications like "101 Fabulous Rotary Cut Quilts" and "The Joy of Quilting," these cel-based animations - filmed "front...

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

Everybody's watching.

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

Junk mail detritus forms a handicraft salute to new media.

A flurry of security envelopes casts spells on the screen.

Hollis Frampton's T-Shirt Collection - animated!

LOVER, LOVERS, LOVING, LOVE (2023) is similar to some of my other recent works, like the three films in the Wasteland series (2017-2021) and M*U*S*H...

Colors and bubbles bustle energetically via oil, ink and clear acetate.