GAME ART: JORDY VEENSTRA'S PIXELATION (2020)
Dutch artist and filmmaker Jordy Veenstra has recently released Pixelation, an experimental machinima consisting of three Quake III fragmovies originally made in late 2010. As Veenstra explains, "All movies were created at the time to familiarize myself with the Q3MME mod and cinematic camera paths and not so much the quality of the frags. The film was re-edited today, almost exactly ten years later, to a more experimental and mysterious mood-like short film." The video is hypnotic: evocative of Piranesi's architecture, Pixelation is a homage to ealy machinima.
Jordy Veenstra is a video editor, motion graphics designer, 2D animator, and experimental filmmaker based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In his practice, Veenstra connects art and narrative with technology and software through the medium of experimental film. His work examines often overlooked social and artistic concerns. His groundbreaking Depthmap was featured in the The Weird, The Eerie, and The Unreal program of the 2020 MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL. In June 2020, VRAL exhibited his work Regression.