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Kaleidoscopic Motion Collage Distorts Idyllic Village

This trippy video captures the essence of a peaceful village and warps it into beautiful chaos.

The audiovisual art scene in Russia has been maturing for a long time, and we at The Creators Project have been keeping an eye on the awesome developments. Years before projection mapping and DIY motion graphics were household terms, many creatives from the country were tearing up the digital world with their stunning artwork.

The most recent fruit borne from the nation is ‘Gánovce’, a motion collage composed by Taras Gesh. The collage is composed of surreal, undulating strips of footage Gesh took in Gánovce, Slovakia. Each layer captures the quaint little village from a different angle, swirling it into an abstract abyss.

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Gesh told The Creators Project that the film captures everything he loves about the village all at once. “I had the idea to make one large composition, which could accommodate all its attractions,” he said. “Lately I have been studying the possibility of using classical painting techniques within video. The result is not a sequence of frames, but canvas for moving composition that turns into a picture.”

It end product would be disarmingly trippy if the village didn’t seem so idyllic. Even when it’s coming at you from all sides, there's still peace and quiet amongst the visual distortion.

The above clip is a short excerpt of a larger film which Gesh will be submitting to festivals soon and you can see Gesh’s other work on his website. When he’s not weaving together crazy composites of European villages, he experiments with mobile art and generative music visualizations.

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