Primal Screen
Primal Screen is an artist collective with multidisciplinary artists ranging from 3D and Illustration to Glitch, Noise, and Video Art. The collective is currently collaborating on a project where each member makes an audiovisual moving image work for each letter of the alphabet.
Medium: 3D Software Blender
Alien
Alien is an experiment in using simple colours, shapes and movement to create an otherworldly environment. I slowly transformed the human head in numerous ways to create a juxtaposition between what is human and what is alien. The video employs procedural and mathematical textures to create jarring and interesting patterns, using colour to create contrast and bizzare, strange creatures from the human head. The sound for the video was also created by me, using high-tempo electronic twangs and laser like sounds to evoke a sense of alienness
Bliss
Bliss illustrates the emotion of bliss as a non-verbal and non-formal state of mind. Using simplicity, textures and soft pat- terns to create a tactile feeling and a sense of organic ebb and flow. The minimal nature of the video is meant to create a calm, meditative experience, alongside the use of ambient, organic music and sounds.
Chaos
Chaos depicts a sense of unraveling and deterioration, employing glitchy aesthetics, jittery textures, and harsh black-and-white lighting. The use of depth maps at very low lossy resolutions gives the video a pixelated, decimated look, denoting a sense of unease and imbalance. The droning metallic sounds add to the sense of foreboding.
Deluge
Continuing with the mental landscape constructed in Chaos. Deluge takes a slower, more subdued approach, with a surreal and abstract narrative. This video is the first experimentation with narrative in the series. The clean, harsh black and whites contribute to the oppressiveness of the video.
Empty
Empty depicts a sense of dissociation, using deteriorating and disappearing bodies. The use of human bodies and visceral in- nards, with cancerous organic material disintegrating slowly, are meant to illustrate the feeling of psychological numbness, and and a mental state poisoned by trauma.
Returning sound
A collaborative project providing visuals for various musicians showcasing their work at Goethe Institut Kolkata, this video ex- presses the voyeuristic, overabundance of images in our lives. and our oversaturation with visual stimuli. The style is jittery, illus- trating our sense of disjointedness with the visual content we consume. The video illustrates a mechanical, cold world where every aspect of human life is documented, and where what was once ephemeral is now part of a growing library of data.
