Hypn: Sleep - Hadiqa: Garden -Hypnotic: Tending to produce sleep.
Paradisial dream gardens drift upon threshold consciousness.
Hypnhadiqa is an experiment using imagery from hand woven rugs to represent hallucinogenic fantasmata encountered in the waning state of consciousness during the onset of sleep. The kaleidoscopic sequence, in this transitional state of reception, is intended to unlock the hypnagogic cognitive state of the viewer.
Awards
2025 Golden Ger International Film Festival, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Best International Animated Short
2025 Post-Cinema Film Festival, Syracuse, Italy
Honorable Mention
2024 36 Girona Film Festival, Girona, Spain
Finalist
Domestic Film Festivals
2025 The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, New York, NY
2024 ASIFA International Animation Day Showcase;
Grand Rapids, Detroit, Edmore, Mt. Pleasant, Midland, Interlochen, MI - ASIFA Central
Dallas, TX – ASIFA Central
St. Louis, MO – ASIFA Central
The Bronx, NY – ASIFA East
Atlanta, GA – ASIFA South
International Film Festivals
2025 Umbria Underground Film Festival, Amelia, Italy
2025 London Experimental, London, England
2025 UNDER_the_RADAR Animation Symposium, Vienna, Austria
2025 Kuala Lumpur International Film Academy Awards, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2025 Berlin Indie Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2024 West Bengal Short Film Festival, India
2024 Hallucinea Film Festival, Paris, France
2024 Festival l’Art en Chemin, Trumilly, France
2024 Shanghai International Short Week, Shanghai, China
2024 Celluloidra Revolverrel Hungarian Experimental Film Festival, Esztergom, Hungary
2024 Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, Serbia
2024 ASIFA International Animation Day Showcase;
Seoul, South Korea – ASIFA South Korea
South Melbourne, Australia – ASIFA Australia
Kyoto, Osaka, Hajinosato, and Atsugi, Japan – ASIFA Japan
Athens, Greece - ASIFA Hellas
2024 Cinestesya Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
2025 Group Exhibition, After Dark, Laumeier Sculpture Park, Sunset Hills, MO (curated by Dana Turkovic)
Hypnhadiqa (2024), Aronson Gallery, Medium: Animation
Kansay the Spider faces the demigod Tesshin at the Iron Gate. The Spider is one of 99 assassins sent to unleash Hell upon Earth from beyond the grave.
600-60-6 is an experimental loop containing 600 frames, drawn in 60 minutes, in six colors.
The surreal film, ‘newscaster/dragon/maggots’ is a transmission of what lurks in between the channels.
I am interested in the language and the pure conveyance of the imagery itself, highlighting the general process of understanding between the viewer and the artist.
I am interested in the language and the pure conveyance of the imagery itself, highlighting the general process of understanding between the viewer and the artist.
I am interested in the language and the pure conveyance of the imagery itself, highlighting the general process of understanding between the viewer and the artist.