Fortress, 2022, Single-channel video, 10 minutes
‘Fortress’ has come out of a collaboration between Tom Faber and Ant Hamlyn. Rendered entirely using 3D animation; Faber responds to the surface material of Hamlyn’s miniature bouncy castles. The film depicts the primary-coloured fabric navigating various states of abstracted flux. It is blown apart by wind, inflated and deflated; it is poured, fragmented, emptied and refilled. Faber drapes the castle material over locations and objects, describing space with porous, shapeshifting skins. Like half-remembered experiences, perpetually forming and deforming.
Moving between interior and exterior, the scanned carcass of the castle moves over spaces which are both domestic and vast, recognisable and obscure. Sometimes this phantom material breaks down into fragmented matter, scattering across unknown terrain, forming into rivulets, eddies and waterfalls, or silently falling away into virtual space.
Photo from Leicester Contemporary, UKNA City Takeover, 2022
