Here's some videos that shake your reality frame - beautifully, weirdly and bruisingly

Welcome to our regular cup-dip into the digital river of creativity all around us… We’re rattling the reality frame this week.

Above is a suitable message for 2024 - “Can’t Go Back” - from Sampha. As Creative Review puts it:

The brief was rooted in “magical realism”, with spirits, impressions, time, and portals all featuring prominently in the director’s initial inspirations.

“While I began by thinking of this with examples in the real world – black holes, solar eclipses, the material known as Vantablack, the concept became most exciting to me when I placed the physical phenomena alongside cameraless photographs (photograms),” says Saad Moosajee, a director, motion designer, and visual artist who was previously creative director for Lil Nas X and has worked with brands including Apple and Tate Modern.

From Aeon:

Amazon Woman offers an amusingly surreal take on mindless materialism and instant gratification readymade for our age of inexhaustible online shopping.

For the piece, the Vienna-based multimedia artist Anna Vasof creates a series of ‘head-missing magic tricks’ wherein she digitally trades her own head with parts of everyday objects, including a smartphone, a teabag and a vacuum cleaner.

Filmed during lockdown periods in 2020 and 2021 – a time when dependence on Amazon.com was at an all-time high for many people around the globe – each vignette is entertaining yet also somewhat discomforting, hinting at the trade-offs inherent to all-consuming consumerism.

And finally, more riffing on space-time… From Vimeo Staff Picks, skateboarding…and all its possible outcomes.