5Y Kunsthal Gent cinema loop

A shiny otherworld of holographic reverie pairs the reflective surfaces of gift wrap and haunting resound, unfolding an effervescent melancholy in three parts. A mesmerising RGB light show, featuring compositions for bowed vibraphone by Elliot Cole.

“The filmmaker and kinetic sculptor Len Lye used to talk about his own films as stained glass daydreams, and I feel like Glistening Thrills is like going to church.” (Jodie Mack)

“In Glistening Thrills, I worked with holographic gift bags and wrapping paper that I got at a dollar store somewhere. I got help from my friends making a mobile out of the gift wrap, and just started hiking and taking my stuff and shooting it around the forest as a way to make these magic moments happen. When I first heard Elliot’s piece, it was performed in this old Shaker church and it really was somewhat of a religious experience.” (Jodie Mack)

“Mack ditches narrative for pure motion in Glistening Thrills, a triptych comprised of three perspectives on holographic whatsits shimmering in the dark. The first sees sparkling abstractions fall (and occasionally move horizontally) through absolute dark, the second views mobiles against a forest backdrop, and the third lets frame-filling geometric shapes whizz and rotate and flash, the sparkling movements in all three sections playing out in a curiously tense relationship with the long, sad notes of Elliot Cole’s bowed vibraphone soundtrack.” (Phil Coldiron)

Made entirely by hand from cut marbled paper, this odyssey of remnants re-imagines a dream-sequence love. See Mack’s process here.

Curses was made by hand-cutting marbleized paper (also made by hand) and includes a rotoscoped homage to Gene Kelly & Cyd Charisse’s Broadway Melody Ballet sequence in Singin’ in the Rain (1952).