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Mogollon: Something is About to Happen

Posted by Alex Bec, Tuesday 16 August 2011

For Mogollon’s recent Tokyo exhibition, entitled Something is About to Happen, they showed this absolutely beautiful piece of moving image. The exhibition ended yesterday, so if you didn’t manage to see it, feast your eyes. The narrative isn’t your standard by any means; the piece opens with a lightning-filled lava lamp of beautiful Egyptian visuals, transforms into ornate human larvae bursting from a cocoon before being engulfed by – what look to me – like undulating, digital rain drops. Magic.

Posted by Alex Bec

Alex is one of the directors of It’s Nice That who now oversees our sister creative agency INT Works. For several years he oversaw the Monday Morning Music Video feature until it came to an end in 2014.

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