Jodie Mack Movies

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

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

A pattern parade followed by calm.

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

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

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

A flurry of security envelopes casts spells on the screen.

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

Vital grief finds interplanetary putrescence.

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

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

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

Junk mail detritus forms a handicraft salute to new media.

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

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

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

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

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

Discordant dysfunction down to the nitty griddy.