The Bellows March

Anthropomorphized concertinas march through an endless cycle of destruction and creation, brought to life by spinning 3D-printed, hand-painted zoetrope sculptures.

A hypnotic fusion of pre-cinema optical toys and digital fabrication, unlike anything else in animation.

I have dug up the zoetrope, a pre-cinema optical toy, and am using it to create and explore a visual language of loops and spirals. When spun, the complex circular sculptures, dubbed cinetropes, are a blur to the human e

Plays in Vimeo's player · Watch on Vimeo