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Game Art: Jacky Connolly's Anhedonia (2017) [trailer]

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Jacky Connolly, Anhedonia, 2017 ,Video, color, sound, 18m.Anhedonia  will be on view until September 29 2017 in these two locations: Vanity Projects, 99 Chrystie St 2F, New York, NY, 10002Vanity Projects, 7338 NW Miami Ct #2, Miami, FL 33150In Anhedonia (2017), a machinima film in six parts, Jacky Connolly turns her filmmaking practice towards a mysterious group home in the virtual American South. Several avatars live in three small buildings near the town's railroad yard, where their lives are punctuated by hours spent in front of a screen. Images from elsewhere begin to intrude with mounting intensity, as the boundaries of the film are fractured by the characters’ visual and auditory hallucinations. These moments of psychosis give insight into the characters’ shared histories, as well as the dissociative atmosphere of their cultural landscape.
image from www.jackyconnolly.com


image from www.jackyconnolly.com


image from www.jackyconnolly.com
Jacky Connolly (b. 1990, Lower Hudson Valley, USA) is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. Connolly's film works are indebted to cinematic and literary genre influences, as well as an innovative use of machinima technique for imaginative world-making and storytelling. She recently completed Hudson Valley Ruins (2016), a 30-minute machinima film created in a life simulation computer game.LINK: Jacky Connolly (video courtesy of Daata Editions x Vanity Projects)

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