film and video art
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“Soup Frog” Ethan Folk, Germany, 2022
Soup Frog is the soliloquy of a saucy post-human tart. Inspired by ecofeminist conceptions of symbiosis (Haraway, Butler), and particularly by the theories of evolutionary microbiologist Lynn Margulis. Written, performed, and captioned in Damiá – a novel, fully-functioning language with an extensive grammar and a vocabulary of around 10,000 words, created over the course of several decades, which seeks to “explore a queer language and its performative potential.”
Soup Frog is part of the project Homecoming — Greatest Hits! by ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS.
Written & directed: Ethan Allison Folk
3D animation: wro wrzesińska
Character creation: Ethan Folk & wro wrzesińska
Vocals performance & Damiá translation: Aslan
Vocal processing: Lemonboy
Music: Samuel Hertz
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved. Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.