Ouroboros

Directed by Jennifer Linton · 2023

Looping images spun on record-turntable phonotropes trace a loose cycle of joy, grief, death and rebirth.

Hypnotic handmade loops spun on a turntable revive the magic of pre-cinema animation.

Ouroboros spins a loose narrative of joy, grief, death and rebirth, all told through looping images printed on physical animation devices known as phonotropes. Much like the ouroboros, a symbolic snake that devours its o

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