Jodie Mack Movies

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

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

Shapes shake nervously. Lines sway back and forth. The sun sets.

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

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 kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric...

A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets, beaming baubles, and glaring glimmers. A bow ballet ablaze (for bedazzled buoyant bijoux brought...

Broken-hearted and mashed up.

Eye candy as a special treat. Let Your Light Shine is the ultimate Spectrum Short film, a photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. A work...

A musical that explores, in glorious color and song, the simultaneous disillusionment and hope of eternal love in the face of an economic crisis.

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

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

The third film in Mack's Wasteland series, Moons, Sons observes the rapid thaw of natural forms.

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...

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

Featuring crystallized magic markers and the kidney stone of a horse, the generously-curated mineral collection of Mary Johnson comes to life in a...

Flowers dance and transform in water, using strobe effects and superimposition. A meditation on life cycles through botanical animation, continuing...

The interconnected circuitry. The aggregated flora. Alternating currents of the visual field.

Vital grief finds interplanetary putrescence.

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