Microplastics
2026 · 2m · USA
Directed by Ed Quinn
Genres: experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark
A handmade experimental film interrogating invisible microplastic contamination through textures created by hand.
Picked by Zoe
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Same Ed Quinn handmade-texture playbook, just with microplastics as the topic of the week. Two minutes, five likes — it's a sketch, not a statement.
Brakhage's Mothlight remains the inevitable touchstone for handmade-texture cinema, and applying that grammar to plastic contamination is conceptually rhymed in a satisfying way. Two minutes is the right length for the gesture; the question is whether the texture earns its subject.
2:05 of hand-tagged Abstract/Experimental, five likes, three months old — the tactile-process-meets-invisible-contamination conceit is strong on paper, but Quinn's Vimeo page gives nothing about how the contamination becomes visible. Curious but uncommitted.