Jodie Mack Movies

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

A university has found the leg bone of Amelia Earhart. A high school science teacher travels to the underworld to bring back his girlfriend. Animals...

Animated photo-negatives illustrate a WWII tragedy.

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

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

Hollis Frampton's T-Shirt Collection - animated!

A pattern parade followed by calm.

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

A stroboscopic dance party.

A musical that explores, in glorious color and song, the simultaneous disillusionment and hope of eternal love in the face of an economic crisis.

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

Discordant dysfunction down to the nitty griddy.

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

Junk mail detritus forms a handicraft salute to new media.

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

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...

Broken-hearted and mashed up.

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