Ed Atkins Movies

  • 2012
    DEPRESSION

    DEPRESSION

    DEPRESSION

    02012HD

    In this audiovisual performance, Ed Atkins lyrically explores the subject of depression and the digital age.

    DEPRESSION
  • 2016
    Safe Conduct

    Safe Conduct

    Safe Conduct

    02016HD

    A live-action and CGI burlesque of airport security instruction videos set to Ravel’s Bolero: A carousel of protocol, rendered bodies,...

    Safe Conduct
  • 2021
    The Worm

    The Worm

    The Worm

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    ‘The Worm’ is a performative video work based on a call from artist Ed Atkins to his mother, with Atkins himself as the digital avatar,...

    The Worm
  • 2011
    Delivery To The Following Recipient Failed Permanently

    Delivery To The Following Recipient Failed Permanently

    Delivery To The Following Recipient Failed Permanently

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    Delivery to the Following Recipient Failed Permanently, is visually restrained compared with his usual experiential overload. There is, though, an...

    Delivery To The Following Recipient Failed Permanently
  • 2018
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    02018HD

    In this hyper-realistic digitally rendered video, sandwiches are assembled in sequence. Each component, from the first slice of bread to the last, is...

    Untitled
  • 2015
    Hisser

    Hisser

    Hisser

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    The story told in Hisser was inspired by a true occurrence. In 2013, a young man in Florida was literally "swallowed up by the earth" when a cesspool...

    Hisser
  • 2013
    The Trick Brain

    The Trick Brain

    The Trick Brain

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    A dark and magical visit to the fabled Parisian address Rue Fontaine 42. This was the residence of André Breton, the mastermind of surrealism,...

    The Trick Brain
  • 2019
    Death Mask 5

    Death Mask 5

    Death Mask 5

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    In his new video work, Atkins plumbs the corporeal depths of digital moving imagery. Computer generated animation, emo musical theatre, collaged...

    Death Mask 5
  • 2012
    Material Witness OR A Liquid Cop

    Material Witness OR A Liquid Cop

    Material Witness OR A Liquid Cop

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    A computer-generated figure sits in a television studio and invokes a-histories and immaterial indices; thick, warm surfaces and dramatic lighting...

    Material Witness OR A Liquid Cop
  • 2013
    Even Pricks

    Even Pricks

    Even Pricks

    02013HD

    Even Pricks is sort of an homage to the repeating loss and gain of an erection—metaphorical or not—as mediated through all the stimuli we...

    Even Pricks