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Jodie Mack is an English-born American experimental filmmaker and animator. She attended the University of Florida and earned her MFA in film, video, and new media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches at Dartmouth College
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01 November 2024
Ultraviolet culminates a body of work (collage, animation, and pre-cinematic optical toys) that glows under blacklight, uniting my previous work in posters and textiles with my ongoing sublimation of art and craft.
29 October 2021
The third film in Mack's Wasteland series, Moons, Sons observes the rapid thaw of natural forms.
01 January 2003
A study in foreground and background made with a video camera, a set of handmade filters, and a canoe.
01 September 2013
'Tie-dye' film study. Psychedelic patterns and colours mix on the various materials then explode onto the retina.
26 November 2010
Junk mail detritus forms a handicraft salute to new media.
01 January 2006
A bite-sized star punch exercise in direct animation with colored acetate.
30 April 2012
Discordant dysfunction down to the nitty griddy.
10 January 2020
A summing up of the spontaneous Super 8 filmmaking I have done over the past decade exploring nature, home, and friends using improvised distorting lenses, macro photography, and pixillation.
07 September 2018
Featuring crystallized magic markers and the kidney stone of a horse, the generously-curated mineral collection of Mary Johnson comes to life in a manual labor of love for the process of archival procedure.
22 June 2012
Named after a type of Belgian lace, this spectral study investigates intricate illusion and optical arrest.
01 January 2011
Filmmaker Jodie Mack’s video animated short is the cat’s pajamas. Literally. The London-born experimental animator’s overlay of recycled everyday patterns and materials has a homey, patchwork quality well-suited to its just-barely-domesticated feline subjects.
01 January 2009
A maximum cycle that celebrates mesmerizing computer graphics made for looping on a small, decoupaged monitor.
16 April 2012
A scanned and spinning document of roughly forty phenakistoscopes made from discarded cardboard. Complete with digital scan glitches and singing by Perry Como.
01 December 2012
A 2012 series of looped screensaver video art made by Jodie Mack
26 November 2010
Everybody's watching.
01 January 2011
The lyrics are from the musical "Finian's Rainbow," the carpets of color from Jodie Mack's inspired imagination.
01 September 2013
Eye candy as a special treat. Let Your Light Shine is the ultimate Spectrum Short film, a photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles.
22 June 2012
A swimming study of paisley patterns traces this decorative motif from its origins in Persian weavings to appearances Irish quilting and American Counterculture.
26 October 2019
Different temporalities collide as we see frozen ice cubes of flowers from the first bloom from Mack's garden being reunited with roots from the very same plants.
14 October 2010
A flurry of security envelopes casts spells on the screen.
01 January 2003
Shapes shake nervously. Lines sway back and forth. The sun sets.
05 September 2013
A quilted call and response. A battle of extreme extremes.
25 September 2010
Rapid-fire florals and morning bird songs bridge interior and exterior, design and nature.
28 October 2014
Tacky threads luminesce at a firefly’s pace, twinkling through remnants of chintzy opulence and gaudy glamour prestissimo brilliante.
04 October 2010
A series of chromatic intersections. Audience members form teams who respond to vertical lines by shouting "plaid" and to horizontal lines by shouting "rad".
02 October 2015
A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets, beaming baubles, and glaring glimmers. A bow ballet ablaze (for bedazzled buoyant bijoux brought up to boil).
01 September 2013
Paper sample books discarded and dumpstered by long-gone businesses undergo a series of sequential experiments in pattern, rhythm, colour and text(ure).
28 June 2016
Made entirely by hand from cut marbled paper, this odyssey of remnants re-imagines a dream-sequence love.
31 August 2025
Flowers dance and transform in water, using strobe effects and superimposition. A meditation on life cycles through botanical animation, continuing Jodie Mack's material exploration.
01 January 2004
Colors and bubbles bustle energetically via oil, ink and clear acetate.
03 August 2018
A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric production and consumption alongside systems of visual and spoken language.
01 September 2013
A shiny otherworld of holographic reverie pairs dollar store gift bags and haunting resound, unfolding an effervescent melancholy in three parts.
08 September 2017
The interconnected circuitry. The aggregated flora. Alternating currents of the visual field.
19 April 2013
Interweaving the forms of personal filmmaking, abstract animation, and the rock opera, this animated musical documentary examines the rise and fall of a nearly-defunct poster and postcard wholesale business; the changing role of physical objects and virtual data in commerce; and the division (or lack of) between abstraction in fine art and psychedelic kitsch.
20 December 2010
Broken-hearted and mashed up.
01 January 2005
Direct animation with stained-glass contact paper, ink, and acetate.
31 December 2020
Culled from instructional publications like "101 Fabulous Rotary Cut Quilts" and "The Joy of Quilting," these cel-based animations - filmed "front and back" - take inspiration from mesmerizing computer graphics.
02 January 2008
A musical that explores, in glorious color and song, the simultaneous disillusionment and hope of eternal love in the face of an economic crisis.
25 April 2009
A collaboration with Chicago’s Judson Claiborne that captures the desert hallucinations of David Morehouse, former CIA spy and author of Psychic Warriors.
