Corridor - Jump Cut
2024 · 4m · Canada
Directed by Winston Hacking
Genres: animation, experimental, musical
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
A cut-paper collage music video for Corridor built from AI-distorted archival footage about technology's infiltration of identity and life.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A music video that weaponizes AI corruption against itself—taking archival footage and deliberately *breaking* it into collage entropy—is exactly the kind of subversive premise that makes you wonder why more artists aren't doing this. It's formally experimental without being precious about it.
The cut-paper collage technique situates itself in a lineage of analog-digital hybridity (think Quay, Švankmajer) while the AI distortion layer feels like a considered formal argument about technological mediation rather than a gimmick.
The singular choice here is letting the AI artifacts become the *texture* of the animation itself rather than hiding or correcting them—that decision turns what could be a novelty into something genuinely unsettling, and on what was clearly a constrained budget, it's the move that makes it work.
Festivals
- StopTrik International Film Festival 2025