Every Known Point in the Universe
2015 · 4m · USA
Directed by Zachary Loren Jones
Genres: animation, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
An animated or experimental short by Zachary Loren Jones — the same filmmaker behind 'Waddle On' — whose work engages with the poetics of scale, digital space, and the strange intimacy of virtual worlds.
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Jones makes a film called Every Known Point in the Universe. He's the same person who documented Club Penguin's death as a genuine tragedy. The scale he's working with — infinity to Club Penguin, Club Penguin to infinity — is the whole project.
Zachary Loren Jones using Google SketchUp to process his dog dying — that collision of grief with cheap 3D modeling is exactly the kind of internet-era personal poetics Jones excels at, and it's all the more affecting for being formally undignified.
Jones made this in Google SketchUp after his dog died. That note alone — cosmological ambition collapsed into homemade grief in 3D modeling software — is genuinely moving as a craft choice.