Garden of Fantasy
“Macininma Film , 2021
Garden of Fantasy is a machinima film that stages a hallucinatory ritual within a synthetic cosmos. Constructed through a real-time game engine, the work unfolds as a metaphysical ceremony where data, sound, and algorithmic rhythms converge to dissolve the boundaries between consciousness and simulation.
Set in a world composed of computational matter, the narrative follows PENGUIN ZERO—an imprisoned emotional program wandering through an absurd digital architecture. Trapped within recursive cycles of generation and decay, the entity embodies the condition of subjectivity under technological regimes. The film transforms symbolic structures into dynamic visual events: bodies fragment into sine and cosine waves, while sonic undercurrents trigger gravitational distortions that collapse the surrounding environment.
Drawing from machinima aesthetics and post-internet discourse, the work examines how affect, memory, and identity are encoded, circulated, and confined within virtual systems. Ritual, entropy, and rebirth become operative metaphors, revealing a universe in which emotional life persists as executable code.
Suspended between annihilation and transcendence, Garden of Fantasy reflects on the metaphysical implications of digital existence, where the boundaries between organism, algorithm, and environment dissolve into a continuous field of data.
De-Elemental / Group Exhibition 2023
Galerie Me ｜Berlin Germany