SPINELESS
In "SPINELESS", artist Marissa Sean Cruz embodies an ogre-girl character who gets a bone lodged in her throat and is unsure if she has died from asphyxiation. Set in a digitally-rendered room , this abstracted narrative is told through a series of vignettes that look to greed, hope, and self-fulfilment in contemporary times. The ogre is caught in the chokehold of some kind of technological hell that is as absurd and alienating as the real online/offline culture it references. This purgatory world formed from a digital economy, nihilism and pressingly, under the state of climate crisis.
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Picture Shows Network presents 4 'mini shows' in one.1st Annual Machinima Festival Nominee for Best Picture (2002) 1st Annual Machinima Festival Nominee for Best Technical Achievement (2002)
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- Marissa Sean Cruz
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