In association with Prix Ars Electronica and Onassis ONX Studio.
Prix Ars Electronica ‘Award of Distinction’ in New Animation
by Jeremy Kamal
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AI voice over creative direction: Case Miller
Original Soundtrack in collaboration with Nathan Buttel
Special thanks to Johnathan Penvose
STAINED is the first chapter of a mini series centered around a landscape known as “The Fringes”. The film depicts an environment in which gangs use colored flora to mark territory. We follows a sensitive tea master, Demetrius, a member of the Crimson Needles gang. Haunted by the voice of his elder/O.G. Bump, Demetrius relives the memory of being reprimanded for his fascination with a blue herb; forbidden by the red gang to which he belongs.The film is a small glimpse into the intimate life of one “The Fringes” many inhabitants.
Stained imagines an alternative ecology that foregrounds under-explored narratives . It re-frames gang culture as a landscape phenomenon and recasts those affiliated as environmental caretakers, botanist and folk healers.
Stained imagines an alternative ecology that foregrounds under-explored narratives . It re-frames gang culture as a landscape phenomenon and recasts those affiliated as environmental caretakers, botanist and folk healers.
“Stained” is set in an fictional universe called Mojo. It is the second landscape of an animated trilogy in which 3 landscapes (The Floods, The Fringes, and The Blades) depict a world where rituals of contemporary Black culture shape the environment and its ecosystems.
“Blood in the soil, blood in the leaves. Blood in the pollen, blood in the seeds. May the red wash all and leave no blue. We stay true to the crimson hue.”
- Bump (The Crimson Oath)
- Bump (The Crimson Oath)