Monster Of The Earth In Visual Poetry

Crossing boundaries of media and art is rarely as unique as this brilliant fusion of sound, motion and poetry from director Nathaniel Whitcomb.

In a testament for smartphones, all the footage in The Birth of Medusa was shot on an iPhone at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.  The smooth, hypnotising images take a shift with the poetry and the strains of the score, created by RxRy.  The poignant poetry, conflicted with personal struggles and a bound consciousness gives birth to the monster of the earth, Medusa.  The slow but encapsulating ebb and flow of the video is designed to leave you feeling as though you’ve ‘suddenly found yourself in the deep’.

Whitcomb is a designer and an artist whose online portfolio explores digital media and experimental art, and his new project Think or Smile shares his ventures and experiments with a diverse range of technology and film (and occasionally cats).  As well as using his own personal footage, there was further collaboration with audio researcher RxRy to develop the sound design which accompanies the visual and literal with perfect emotion and intensity.

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• Directed by

  Nathaniel Whitcomb

• Band

  RxRy