Action Bog

A feverish stasis collapses into infinite distraction, spinning on the axis of an algorithm. Each pulse, an uncertain tone, breathes electricity into a half-alive world. Time stretches like soft polymer; metamorphoses creep forward frame by frame, suspiciously slow, as if the film were watching me back.

Photographic fragments are transferred onto clay, not quite sculpture, not quite collage, but something in between: a Tonermorph. Figures emerge mid-gesture, faces unsealed yet never whole, suspended within the patterns of their own skin. They falter, caught in an action bog of their own making, or perhaps mine.

A work of non-narrative cinema, the piece is guided by a score from electroacoustic and musique concrète composer Andrew Zukerman. Created during a 2025 summer residency at the Toronto Animated Image Society, with production funding support from the Society.

Animation, Design Winston Hacking
Sound Design Andrew Zukerman
Sound Mastering Sandro Perri
Special Thanks Toronto Animated Image Society, Veronica Ladico, Constant Yen, Clint Enns

PRESS
It’s Nice That

SCREENINGS
2026 Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films, Liberec, Czechia
2026 Cauldron International Film and Video Festival, Salt Lake City, UT
2026 Brighton International Animation Festival, Brighton, UK
2026 RPM in Motion, CAMLab Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2026 Loose Frames Screening Series, Los Angeles, CA
2026 Darkroom Screening Series & Salon, Prospect Park, Brooklyn
2026 Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2026 Chester Animation Festival, Chester, England
2026 Richmond Animation Festival, Richmond, Virginia
2026 “Télé-Bingo Mutations: Signals from the Montréal Underground,” Labo Argent, Marseille, France
2026 “Télé-Bingo Mutations: Signals from the Montréal Underground,” Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Paris, France
2025 Animation Clubhouse, Los Angeles, CA
2025 GIRAF Animation Festival, Calgary, AB (North American Premiere)