Explore a deep-sea world full of abandoned pieces of ocean plastic that assemble themselves into new chaotic creatures over and over again. Melbourne, Australia-based filmmaker Felix Colgrave writes:
“The name comes from a box of miscellaneous plastic objects my child has. Things that are not categorically blocks or figurines or anything describable. I referred to them as ‘gonks’, which was pronounced by my then-2-year-old as ‘donks’. This film was me making my own set of donks, and building silly things out of them.”
Set to a cacophonous soundtrack, the animation ends when a toy submarine is overpowered, providing a sort of whale fall for the ravenous toy part scavengers.
Watch these handpicked videos next on TKSST:
• Whale Fall (After Life of a Whale)
• Ubiquitous bits of rainbow plastic, a stop-motion elegy
• WindUp
• One Plastic Beach: Making art from found beach plastic
• Washed Ashore, giant animal sculptures made of found beach plastic
via Waxy.org.
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