Psychedelic imagery often results via portraying the inherent bizarreness of mass culture. Filmmaker Winston Hacking’s oeuvre is a playful treatise of pop culture, excavated, re-imagined, and given the breath of life. In his latest short, Freetoe Lag (2020), Hacking creates psychedelic revulsion subtly, via toys and found beach plastics dissolving onto themselves as others emerge, born from this decidedly contemporary ooze.
This is classic body horror, with figurines standing in for leaking bodies, spreading their contagions
joyously. The film undulates with a pulsating rhythm, emphasized by Nick Mariana and Chris Phillips’s hypnotic soundtrack. What could be more appealing than to let one’s worries just ooze away? - Chloe Lum
Created for Pulse Film's the ABC's of Lockdown - a challenge where each of their directors was given a letter and the theme of Quarantine.
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Visuals: Winston Hacking winstonhacking.com
Sound:
Chris Phillips has been self producing experiments in electronic music and visual art as Squim since 1991. He currently runs the collaborative music label 123bricks.bandcamp.com/ with friends and family.
Nick Mariana is a multi instrumentalist who is now producing as Foam. Tracks from his upcoming release can be found on this compilation: 123bricks.bandcamp.com/album/123-bricks-2018
Analog Screen Capture - Luis Hernandez
Audio Gear Used: Tascam Digital Field Recorder, OP1, Organelle M, Moog Theremini, Circuit bent Speak and Spell, Ditto loop pedal, Electroharmonix frequency analyzer, Tascam 4 track tape machine, Steinberg ur-rt 4.
