Fulcrum
2022 · 8m · USA
Directed by Timothy David Orme
Genres: animation
Tones: contemplative, surreal
An experimental animated short following a young woman rowing through space and consciousness as the mathematics of the universe unfolds around her, meditatively exploring liminal states, fractal geometry, and the individual's connectedness to all things.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Five-year solo Fibonacci-fractal animation about rowing through consciousness. The 'connectedness to all things' language makes me want to leave the planet — but the obsessional craft might still earn it.
Orme builds five years of solo animation around Fibonacci spirals and fractal generation — closer to experimental Brakhage-lineage cosmic cinema than to narrative animation. A meditation rather than a story; the form is the meaning.
Five-year solo project built around Fibonacci spiral geometry and fractal generation as both structural and visual spine — that's a mathematics-as-cinema commitment that either reads as sublime or as conceptual furniture. 13K views at 8:13 with multiple Best Animation wins says the former.
Reviews
fulcrum is a lovely film and an even lovelier viewing experience... expansive in meaning, modest, meditative, yet suffused with wonder.
Festivals
- Thomas Edison Film Festival 2022, Jury Award