Director: Lewis Heriz

Bio: Lewis Heriz is a cross-disciplinary artist and filmmaker from Suffolk, UK.

He comes to his animation practice from a background first in music and theatre, then grassroots music promotion. From the latter grew a decade-or-so-long stint in graphic art and illustration, with a heavy weighting on record cover and poster design for labels such as Soundway, Sofrito, Strut, and Now-Again/Stones Throw, and artists such as the Sun Ra Arkestra. The ‘manufactured synaesthesia’ approach he applied to music visuals led him to see animation – with its fusion of sound and image through time – as a natural progression, and has spent his MA at the Royal College of Art investigating as expanded an approach to the form as possible under the restricted circumstances of lockdown.

This is his second short film – after the short-short ‘Improv (1)’ which won Vimeo Staff Pick in 2019 – but his first as a director.

Film: A voice speaks of the new technology: the final promise of a ‘pure’ communication.

With whom do they speak?

Is this really us?

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