“The faster you break it the faster we make it,” says the wooden column at one point, going on to acknowledge the bounteous economic logic of this reality with the observation that “production is sealed in gold.”Early on we see the black-and-white striped house Adolf Loos designed for Josephine Baker. It’s a cardboard model, of course; the plans were never realized. The house is an idea, an image, a virtual presence, a possibility, a provocation. Later in the film it reappears, reconfigured in different materials with a different range of qualities and surface finishes. “Why do so many things look the same, and only one of them is good?” asks a female voice. This is not the column’s voice but that of someone who sounds much like Marten herself. It is, in fact, her sister, one Marten speaking another Marten’s words. After all, in order to manufacture glamour, a little plagiarism is essential. And this process—call it borrowing, copying, paying homage, whatever—is both violent and comic.

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CGI collage short film originally premiered as part of the 'Extinction Renaissance' exhibition at th...

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Short, experimental clip of tall buildings, lots of them, plenty of vacant apartments and cosy weath...

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Following his robbery, a man finds himself forced to board into a little grandma’s car to escape the...

Liyoki, a silverback gorilla, lives peacefully with his family, when they are attacked by poachers.

A mushroom embarks on an epic adventure to find its purpose in life.

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Federation trooper Johnny Rico is ordered to work with a group of new recruits on a satellite statio...

Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).