Orchids, or a hemispherical bottom (2013)
• October 15th, 2013 • 0h 19min
Animation
Overview
Orchids,… centers on an animated video in which Marten sets forth a sanitised and alluring world of free-floating and fragmentary objects. Excised from normal context and imbued with an impossible cosmetic sheen, these crystalline forms are conjured in colours that range from the surreally heightened to the deliberately banal. A line of toy-like objects – a train, a giraffe on wheels, a boat – trundles along on an impossibly turquoise plane. Parasitically followed by a swirling black fly, the unfolding narrative is one of production, consumption and saturation. Elsewhere, the naked human backside of the title (cropped and anonymous) is shown with a luridly-glowing orchid tucked between its buttocks. At points, the imagery takes on the semblance of a painting or diagram, both formulaic ‘analogues’ of reality, like the video itself, implying the knotty weight of a Cézanne still life.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
FLORA PARTY
Released on: 2024-04-24
Animation
a group of friends attend an art gallery show at the recently finished Tower of Babel.
Flares
Released on: 2025-09-28
Animation, Documentary, Drama
After a near-death experience, a person floats in a mysterious space, gradually being reborn by reco...
Rocks
Released on: 2003-06-05
Animation, Comedy
The stone-people Hew and Kew have seen a lot in their everlasting lives on top of their mountain. Th...
Coping Strategies
Released on: 2013-10-18
Animation
Coping Strategies is a stop-motion animation created from the screen prints of Ellie Honel
The Inseparables
Released on: 2023-09-01
Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
The animated buddy movie follows the misadventures of Don, a runaway puppet with boundless imaginati...
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
Released on: 1976-06-26
Family, Animation, Comedy, Adventure
Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar tha...
Passenger
Released on: 2024-11-07
Comedy, Animation, Drama
In this anime-inspired film, a vengeful spirit tries to possess Cora's body, but over time they form...
The Island of Giant Insects
Released on: 2020-01-10
Animation, Mystery, Drama, Horror, Adventure
After an airplane crash during a school trip, Oribe Mutsumi and her classmates were stranded on a se...
Saving Soldier Cashman
Released on: 1997-07-29
Comedy, Animation, Action, Science Fiction
An adaptation by V-Jump Festa of a one shot manga by Akira Toriyama.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Released on: 2024-03-05
Thriller, Animation, Mystery
Shot on 16mm film in New York and composed in Berlin, the work explores polarizing themes of the met...
Niggun
Released on: 2019-04-30
Animation
After a long journey through the stars a space archaeologist and an outcast rabbi are about to find ...
Snowdrop
Released on: 2013-03-21
Drama, Animation, Family, Fantasy
Snowdrop is the heartwarming fan-made short film about a young, blind pegasus who makes a discovery ...
Before We Squeak
Released on: 2025-07-14
Animation, Thriller
A strange golden insect crawls into a bedroom on a stifling summer night. As it invades the sleeping...
The Ceremony
Released on: 1965-12-05
Animation
Six people are grouped in front of a wall as if for a photograph. The entire ceremony is supervised ...
Headspace
Released on: 2023-05-26
Animation, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
This is an alien invasion film like no other – the aliens are miniature but still want to take over ...
Scooby-Doo's Spookiest Tales
Released on: 2003-02-19
Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Zoinks! Get ready to shake and shiver with Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang as they collect clu...
Portraits of Voyages Haiti: Earthquake
Released on: 2013-08-09
Animation
Meeting with a survivor of the earthquake in Haiti. Telling us about disaster and life after the tra...
Easter Morning
Released on: 2007-08-09
Animation
The animated film reveals the beauty and meaning of Easter morning.