Lucy Ellis is an experimental animator and creative coder based in London. Her work explores the digital and analogue through experimenting with process and materiality. She enjoys working with scrap and found materials repurposing them to form new identities and narratives differing from their original purpose or intention. The texture of materials is important to her practice, exploring how it evokes memory and time. More recently she has become interested in screen based installation work exploring animation as an expanded practice.

She was awarded as the inaugural winner of the DAZED and Rabanne arts factory 2024 where she displayed her work at Miami Art Basel 2024. She has also displayed work in festivals like the London Short Film Festival, Peckham Digital’s Festival of Creative Computing and been featured in Labocine’s Primary Colours Issue 2025. She recently was selected for Arebyte’s Hotel Generation 2025. 

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04 PIXELA-ZZZ

2024

Single channel video, animation made using datamoshing and databending, VHS transfer

Displayed at Peckham Digitals Festival of Creative Computing 
Displayed at Dream Sequence SET Social Peckham 
Displayed at Art Basel Miami 2024 
Featured in Labocine Primary Colours Issue 2025 PIXELA-ZZZ is a moving image work shaped by the breakdown of visual clarity through sleep deprivation and prolonged screen exposure. Created in a state of digital exhaustion, the film reflects a blurred and unstable perception where figures dissolve into abstraction and details drift out of reach. The characters walk forward while the camera slowly pans away, creating a push and pull between viewer and subject that echoes a deep sense of disconnection. Repeated acts of digital distortion mirrored my own strained vision, as the screen became both a tool of creation and act of deterioration. What unfolds is a detached and hazy routine, where walking feels suspended in a digital daydream and clarity fades as quickly as it forms.

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