Pandea Child

Talent Showcase 2020
  • Scheme: FLAMIN Fellowship
  • tags: Animation
  • People: Milo Creese
  • Duration: 12'39"

Film Information

  • Year of commission: 2020
  • Year of release: 2020

Credits

  • Artist: Milo Creese

In Pandea Child, a polymorphic narrator lets you know that everything will be ok as they are absorbed into the hive mind ecosystem of an alien planet. The film mediates on the notion of a complete sensory shift, in which the new senses of an alien body begin to shade over into a new kind of language and a new kind of communication.

As you follow the narrator's experiences through a textural soundscape, a host of tentacular forms fade in and out of focus. Silicon valley lifestyle brand melodies give way to crunchy body horror as the narrator sighs - ‘a thought for every organism you can see, one for every atom maybe’. Pandea Child imagines becoming a world and thinking with all beings at once, and we can see, reflected in the image of this holobiont alien planet, a vision of solidarity with our pale blue dot.

Milo Creese, Pandea Child (2020), video still. Courtesy of the artist

Milo Creese, Pandea Child (2020), video still. Courtesy of the artist

Milo Creese, Pandea Child (2020), installation view at Well Projects, Margate. Courtesy of the artist

Milo Creese, Pandea Child (2020), installation view at Well Projects, Margate. Courtesy of the artist

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