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“Eye Motion”

Inés Benítez Gómez
Cell Animation
16 mm Film
May 2019

This video in particular holds the refraction of a hand drawn frame by frame animation, a choreography for the eye. Playing around the same discourse, forcing the analog, contact of making and remaking, playing with the non existent materiality and the digital.

For instance, this spatial photography becomes anti-static, by allowing the viewer to recognize the moving eye, allowing them to become the protagonists, while focusing and moving around a confined stroke, brush stroke, dancing along. Images here are blurred, open to interpretation and the imaginary of the spectator's spatial construction, through the potential of light stimulating the eye, and the self: Floating cells, dots swelling to create a light-filled field, the waltz of two dots, tornadoes, stretching tensions, blinking sparks, three dots after the physicality of only two...