A bright white room, heavy breathing, lips through gauze, and then it all starts to ooze: colourful liquids, seeping from air vents and through shattered windows. This brilliant little short from 24-year-old artist Robyn Wilton is more than worthy of two minutes of your time, and if you think it looks lovely on your laptop screen, you can also catch it on your TV too.
The piece, entitled All the Busy Ings, premieres exclusively on i-D and is part of Channel 4’s Random Acts – a TV series that showcases all that’s cool and exciting in the short film realm. Not only do they commission films by established directors, they also provide a platform for awesome young filmmakers like Robyn to produce their work too. Previously, artists like Ai Weiwei and Marina Abramovic have lent their hands to the series, so you can be sure that the standards are super high!
“All the Busy Ings follows on from my degree show project, ‘A guided tour of invisible space’,” Fine Art graduate Robyn tells i-D. “It was a playful, suggestive description of what may have been taking place in the negative space within the shell of the exhibition – around, above and in between the artworks.”
As much as Robyn’s short can be defined by those visuals, so beautiful they could make your eyes pop out of their sockets, there’s a throbbing, atmospheric piece of music by London producer Happy Cat Jay underneath it too. Once it drops, Robyn’s visuals turn into a hallucinatory, mirror mad trip.
Channel 4’s Random Acts kicks off on Monday 21 August