See You Later, Seattle
2025 · 2m · USA
Directed by Ed Quinn
Genres: experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
A handmade experimental city farewell — Seattle rendered as tactile material before it's rendered as place.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Two minutes of handmade textures and a city goodbye — Ed Quinn has a whole farewell-to-cities series, which makes this start to feel less like an artwork and more like a TikTok format. Pretty enough; I'm not staying through the whole feed.
Quinn's tactile-textures-first method recalls Jodie Mack's materialist abstractions, though at two minutes with a Vimeo audience of seven, this reads as one entry in an ongoing artisanal practice rather than a singular statement. There is integrity in the approach; one wishes for more time inside it.
At 2:17, this is more material study than city portrait — the handmade textures-first process means every frame carries the friction of physical surface. The Vimeo page is sparse (7 likes, no synopsis beyond the doc/experimental tags), so I'm rating the craft commitment, not verified execution.