15/01/2026
Ethann Néon - Blinkity Black (2024)
Blinkity Black is a cross borders’ film mixing documentary, fiction and experimental approaches in a free composition of styles. The film is about blinking, what we miss when we blink and the part of lost images and memories of our everyday life.
My work explores the concept of the ‘unseen’, particularly how time is perceived in images. Time, invisible yet omnipresent, becomes my raw material, a vehicle for thought and a subject for artistic experimentation. Drawing inspiration from philosophical concepts such as Bergsonian duration and Deleuzian crystal images, I construct a vision of time that is non-linear, layered and vertical. These theoretical references are embodied in mechanical gestures such as walking, blinking and reflection. By magnifying these micro-events, which are often invisible due to their banality, I reveal what usually escapes our attention. This meticulous exploration of detail and interstice delves into the intimacy of the ‘unseen’, the liminal zone between presence and absence, movement and stasis. It is in this in-between space that my animation practice is situated: this art form, so dear to Norman McLaren, ‘of manipulating the invisible interstices between images’. While rooted in the history of animation, I also explore contemporary and hybrid forms, combining ‘expanded cinema’ and ‘expanded animation’, and embracing the recent integration of the arts, where disciplines converge, influence each other, and reinvent themselves. I therefore consider the cinematographic device to be an expanded space conducive to perceptual manipulation of the viewer, as well as reflection on memory, temporality, and the materialisation of time in the image.
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