Lucy Ellis is an experimental animator based in London. In her work she 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.
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04 PIXELA-ZZZ
2024
Displayed at Peckham Digitals Festival of Creative Computing
Displayed at Dream Sequence SET Social Peckham
Displayed at Art Basel Miami 2024
Pixela-zzz is a film which explores the digital frame as a perfect formulation of pixels and how this can be broken and distorted. Through exploring the processes of datamoshing and databending, we are shown figures which mosh and melt into one another. As the figures move closer towards us, the camera pans further away. There is a theme of disconnection between the viewer and the figures where we try to understand them but they break form and become unclear in the process. The film also utilises a VHS transfer process adding grain and colour distortion to the figures.
VHS transfer process!