The work begins with a set of trading gestures, where a hand is not only a hand but also a sign, a unit, and a way of measuring relation. Numbers, mathematical dimensions, and bodily measurement are folded into a small choreography of touch.
In the video, the hand becomes both an instrument of calculation and a surface of contact. The animation moves between abstract systems and physical gesture, asking how a body learns to compare, count, and orient itself through another body.
Process notes
The work grows out of the overlap between trading gestures, counting on the fingers, and the mathematical language of dimensions — places where a hand is a sign, a unit, a way of measuring a relation. I move between filmed hands and 3D animation to ask how a body turns into a measuring instrument, and how one hand passes value, distance and relation to another. Words surface like operations — REALIZE, NEUTRALIZE — alongside recursive rooms, floating arms and bodies bent into measuring signs, until counting and touching are hard to tell apart.
Festivals / screenings
- 2025, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece — Universe of Language version
- 2024, MONSTRA - Lisbon Animation Festival, Lisbon, Portugal — Universe of Language version
- 2024, Vienna Shorts, Vienna, Austria — Reselected
- 2024, Ann Arbor Film Festival - Music Video Competition, Ann Arbor, USA — Universe of Language version
- 2024, Supertoon International Animation Festival, Šibenik, Croatia — Universe of Language version
- 2023, SUPERTOON International Animation And Comics Festival, Šibenik, Croatia — Universe of Language version
- 2023, Vienna Shorts, Vienna, Austria — Universe of Language version
- 2023, AniMaji Festival, New York, United States of America — Universe of Language version
- 2023, Experimental Film Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico — Universe of Language version
Exhibitions
- 2023, Beijing Gallery Week, Beijing Gallery Week, Beijing, China
- 2023, Chongqing Holograms, Times Art Museum, Chongqing, China
Links / references
- Ann Arbor Film Festival Music Video Competition Public programme listing for Universe of Language.
- Experimental Film Guanajuato official selection Official selection page listing Universe of Language.
- MONSTRA 2024 programme PDF Festival programme record for Universe of Language.