Jodie Mack Movies

Made entirely by hand from cut marbled paper, this odyssey of remnants re-imagines a dream-sequence love.

'Tie-dye' film study. Psychedelic patterns and colours mix on the various materials then explode onto the retina. The 16mm material perfectly...

Tacky threads luminesce at a firefly’s pace, twinkling through remnants of chintzy opulence and gaudy glamour prestissimo brilliante.

A swimming study of paisley patterns traces this decorative motif from its origins in Persian weavings to appearances Irish quilting and American...

Eye candy as a special treat. Let Your Light Shine is the ultimate Spectrum Short film, a photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. A work...

Featuring crystallized magic markers and the kidney stone of a horse, the generously-curated mineral collection of Mary Johnson comes to life in a...

A quilted call and response. A battle of extreme extremes.

Broken-hearted and mashed up.

Ultraviolet culminates a body of work (collage, animation, and pre-cinematic optical toys) that glows under blacklight, uniting my previous work in...

A scanned and spinning document of roughly forty phenakistoscopes made from discarded cardboard. Complete with digital scan glitches and singing by...

A musical that explores, in glorious color and song, the simultaneous disillusionment and hope of eternal love in the face of an economic crisis.

Flowers dance and transform in water, using strobe effects and superimposition. A meditation on life cycles through botanical animation, continuing...

The lyrics are from the musical "Finian's Rainbow," the carpets of color from Jodie Mack's inspired imagination. As with forebears like Len Lye and...

A summing up of the spontaneous Super 8 filmmaking I have done over the past decade exploring nature, home, and friends using improvised distorting...

Shapes shake nervously. Lines sway back and forth. The sun sets.

A study in foreground and background made with a video camera, a set of handmade filters, and a canoe.

Different temporalities collide as we see frozen ice cubes of flowers from the first bloom from Mack's garden being reunited with roots from the very...

Vital grief finds interplanetary putrescence.

A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets, beaming baubles, and glaring glimmers. A bow ballet ablaze (for bedazzled buoyant bijoux brought...

Named after a type of Belgian lace, this spectral study investigates intricate illusion and optical arrest.