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I Wasn't Ready to Leave This World Behind
Video with sound, 5:53 duration, 2025
“I wasn’t ready to leave this world behind, so I continued to push it in an unknowable direction. Let’s see where we go.” Posted in March 2024, Aliayta put to words the bittersweet excitement we feel when our ideas briefly flicker in sync.
I Wasn’t Ready to Leave This World Behind emerged from a string of short works from early 2024 that we felt warranted further exploration. Grounded by simple yet evocative visual themes (the gate, the oculus), the piece hints at beginnings and endings, of time-dissolving, of place-transcending. Materially, it reflects the diversity found within our weekly practice, revealing traces of coding output, audio-reactive animations, low-fi video clips, heavily processed found-footage, acoustic violin, field recordings, and synthesis. Crumpled together and compressed into a deep intake of breath, the work holds on to that moment, stretching out that flicker.
Sound and video by THIRTYMINUTES.
“I wasn’t ready to leave this world behind, so I continued to push it in an unknowable direction. Let’s see where we go.” Posted in March 2024, Aliayta put to words the bittersweet excitement we feel when our ideas briefly flicker in sync.
I Wasn’t Ready to Leave This World Behind emerged from a string of short works from early 2024 that we felt warranted further exploration. Grounded by simple yet evocative visual themes (the gate, the oculus), the piece hints at beginnings and endings, of time-dissolving, of place-transcending. Materially, it reflects the diversity found within our weekly practice, revealing traces of coding output, audio-reactive animations, low-fi video clips, heavily processed found-footage, acoustic violin, field recordings, and synthesis. Crumpled together and compressed into a deep intake of breath, the work holds on to that moment, stretching out that flicker.
Sound and video by THIRTYMINUTES.
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