Not even the most free-range imagination can prepare you for the discombobulated musings of motion graphics artist Gero Doll. Doll has a radiant flair for the weirdly abstract, and it’s certainly raising his stock as one of our experimental filmmakers to watch.A roving field of ghoulish half-eaten ice cream bars? Check. Pear-shaped grandmas with powers of levitation and their own gravitational pull? You got it. Chrome dung beetles flying through space? Why not.
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A still from Doll’s 2013 Gogga. Notice the dung beetles.Doll-- who is also known as Limbicnation--delivers punches of full-blown creative imagery at every frame. Sometimes a frame can’t handle the pressure of its own reality-bending imagination that it simply “hiccups,” as happens plenty in his most recent film Buzzard.
Still image from Buzzard (2014).Through a combination of the scrypsophenic visual buffets central in his work and the droning soundtracks of Doll’s own creation, one starts to feel a slight buzz--for lack of a better word--after repeat viewings of his pieces. It’s certainly behind his success with Vimeo, whose editors have chosen work like Aleph Fourth Way (2013) and Logan’s Run (2012) as Staff Picks.
Floating pear-shaped grandmas, anyone? Still from Logan’s Run (2012).Even when he’s just experimenting within a 20-second window, as he does in Everything (2011), Doll is able to invoke feelings that go beyond the rush of stimuli.
Everything (2011).Ranked below in order of charming derangement are our favorite Doll films.
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Still image from Buzzard (2014).Through a combination of the scrypsophenic visual buffets central in his work and the droning soundtracks of Doll’s own creation, one starts to feel a slight buzz--for lack of a better word--after repeat viewings of his pieces. It’s certainly behind his success with Vimeo, whose editors have chosen work like Aleph Fourth Way (2013) and Logan’s Run (2012) as Staff Picks.
Floating pear-shaped grandmas, anyone? Still from Logan’s Run (2012).Even when he’s just experimenting within a 20-second window, as he does in Everything (2011), Doll is able to invoke feelings that go beyond the rush of stimuli.
Everything (2011).Ranked below in order of charming derangement are our favorite Doll films.Logan's Run from Gero Doll (2012).BUZZARD from Gero Doll.Everything from Gero Doll (2011).Imagine from Gero Doll (2013).