Jodie Mack

A summing up of the spontaneous Super 8 filmmaking I have done over the past decade exploring nature, home, and friends using improvised distorting...

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

16mm, color, silent

Interweaving the forms of personal filmmaking, abstract animation, and the rock opera, this animated musical documentary examines the rise and fall...

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

A 28-minute musical that explores simultaneous disillusionment and hope in glorious color and song.

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

A shiny otherworld of holographic reverie pairs dollar store gift bags and haunting resound, unfolding an effervescent melancholy in three parts....

Eye candy as a special treat. Let Your Light Shine is the ultimate Spectrum Short film, a photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. A work...

Eye candy as a special treat. Let Your Light Shine is the ultimate Spectrum Short film, a photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. A work...

Eye candy as a special treat. Let Your Light Shine is the ultimate Spectrum Short film, a photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. A work...

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

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

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

Hollis Frampton's T-Shirt Collection - animated!

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

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

A series of chromatic intersections. Audience members form teams who respond to vertical lines by shouting "plaid" and to horizontal lines by...

A flurry of security envelopes casts spells on the screen.

A flurry of security envelopes casts spells on the screen.

Broken-hearted and mashed up.

Junk mail detritus forms a handicraft salute to new media.

Everybody's watching.

A flurry of security envelopes casts spells on the screen.

Broken-hearted and mashed up.

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

Animated photo-negatives illustrate a WWII tragedy.

A stroboscopic dance party.

Junk mail detritus forms a handicraft salute to new media.

Shapes shake nervously. Lines sway back and forth. The sun sets.

Everybody's watching.

Junk mail detritus forms a handicraft salute to new media.

Broken-hearted and mashed up.

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

A pattern parade followed by calm.

Everybody's watching.

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

A swimming study of paisley patterns traces this decorative motif from its origins in Persian weavings to appearances Irish quilting and American...

Broken-hearted and mashed up.

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

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

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.

Discordant dysfunction down to the nitty griddy.

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 study in foreground and background made with a video camera, a set of handmade filters, and a canoe.

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

Filmmaker Jodie Mack’s video animated short is the cat’s pajamas. Literally. The London-born experimental animator’s overlay of...

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

A 28-minute musical that explores simultaneous disillusionment and hope in glorious color and song.

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

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

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

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

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

A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric...

Featuring crystallized magic markers and the kidney stone of a horse, the generously-curated mineral collection of Mary Johnson comes to life in a...

Featuring crystallized magic markers and the kidney stone of a horse, the generously-curated mineral collection of Mary Johnson comes to life in a...

Featuring crystallized magic markers and the kidney stone of a horse, the generously-curated mineral collection of Mary Johnson comes to life in a...

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

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...

A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric...

A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric...

A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric...

A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric...

A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric...

A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric...

A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric...