Nik Mirus pays homage to David Umemoto’s work, Digital Architecture. Inspired by the sculptor’s process and materials, Nik explores the sculpture, transforming the flat inanimate, 2D plexiglas pieces into a 3D sculpture that grows, deconstructs and appears to have a life of its own.
I wanted to explore the sculpture through the plexiglass medium - it's a material I have been fond of using in my personal work too - and highlight the beauty of its reflective and transparent qualities. I love the geometry, the rhythm of its forms, and the optical effects created when the individual pieces of the sculpture are layered together.
With geometric objects, photography blurs the lines with graphic design, and at times painting.
I like the effect when transparent materials are layered on top of each other; a visual trickery occurs. You’re not too sure if the image is made through photography or CGI. Is it real, 3D or 2D? I like this illusion.
The two-dimensional shapes transform into one another, emerging out of nothing. They metamorphose into this big organic structure that appears to grow and deconstruct infinitely, piece by piece. There is an ominous AI undercurrent present in the film that feels timely.
DIRECTOR & DOP: NIK MIRUS
DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE SCULPTOR: DAVID UMEMOTO
MUSIC: MEDIEVAL - THOR & FRIENDS
GAFFER: PHILIPPE ROBITAILLE
KEY GRIP: BASTIEN MEYER
BOLT OPERATOR: GUILLAUME SHEA-BLAIS
ASS. BOLT OPERATOR & BEST BOY GRIP: STEVEN TRUDEL-HENRI
BEST BOY GRIP: LUCAS NAVENNEC
BEST BOY GAFFER: JESSICA LYNCH
PLEXIGLASS WRANGLER: AUDREY ST-LAURENT
D.I.T: JEREMY BOBROW
EDITING: GERARDO ALCAINE
BTS: ADRIEN TARET
POST PRODUCTION: SHED
DIRECTOR OF POST-PRODUCTION: FRÉDÉRIC MILOT
POST PRODUCTION PRODUCER: NATHALIE KORAMBUENA
COLOURIST: CHARLES-ÉTIENNE PASCAL
FLAME ARTIST: NICOLAS ST-CYR
POST-PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: ARIAN BÉRUBÉ
ASSISTANT EDITOR: JEAN-PHILIPPE HAINEAULT
TITLE DESIGN: BAILLAT STUDIO
PRODUCTION: L’ÉLOI
PRODUCER: ERIKA-ELYZABETH KORZER
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: AVRIL TREMBLAY