Production: Brian Bowman & Digital Kitchen
My Role: Live Action Director, Motion Design, Animator, Compositor, and Editor

Lifecycle was made for and presented as part of my F5 presentation (NYC, 4/16/2009).

Lifecycle is conceptually focused on utopian ideology particularly in relation to architectural practice. My argument is that utopia finds itself in a constant state of failure and reinvention; urban futurism vs Epcot, housing tower vs Cabrini Green, etc. Hence, the cycle of utopian ideology is the application of ideology, the failure of application, re-assimilation of failure, and thus a revision of original ideology. The result of this ideological loop are the speculations for new kinds of conceptual hybrids.

Two hybrids I speculated on (through a film) are a fertility spa where reproductive technology becomes an aesthetic experience and a vertical tomb where the graveyard becomes a tower and an anonymous beacon to the city.

Special thanks to DOSC who created the soundtrack and did the sound design.