Person takes a mental picture by blinking

A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the retina of the eye, McLaren engraves pictures on blank film creating vivid, percussive effects.

Using the "blink" as a visual metaphor for the often fragmented, non-sequential and interrupted nature of memory, Cho constructs a phantasmagoric travelogue. Writes Cho, "I tried to make a visual poem about traveling which contained contrary elements: manipulation and spontaneity, brightness and darkness, beginning and end."

The average person blinks 15-20 times per minute and upwards of 28,800 times a day. Shot on location throughout France in 2017 BLINK is a brief reflection on all the life that transpires while our eyes are closed.

A portrait develops. Slowly peels the image, whose content seems more and more unclear. Is it lifeless as a photographic print or is there something living?

Moon Blink was entirely generated by complex software, no camera was used. The result of this formal method is an abstract digital artwork that not only manages to convince thanks to its mathematical precision, but primarily also due to its incredible beauty and surprising narrative structure. Comparison to the classic abstract films from the 1920s by, for instance, Ruttmann, seems justified.