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The Death loop

Year: 2022

Single-channel video, 5 minutes 22 seconds

The Death Loop is a short film exploring the rituality and spirituality of dying and respawning in video games. The film uses found animations from Adobe’s Mixamo platform, which provides a large collection of combat animations for use by video game studios. Central to the story is the question of the Death Loop - a theorised phenomenon that occurs when a game does not know whether the player is alive or dead - and how such a space for the unintelligible can emerge from concrete blocks of code. In the video we see a series of avatars, represented by an artist’s mannequin, dying or being killed by invisible assailants over and over again in a range of different animations.