the ecstatic truth | ResurrExit Elysium

Music composed and performed by Ruaidhri Mannion. Collaboration with renowned British artist, Chris Boyd.

The Ecstatic Truth is Werner Herzog's notion of deeper poetic truths reached through stylization and imagination then cinema verite documentation.

"Without dreams we would be cows in a field" Werner Herzog.

A killcam in the multiplayer Battle Royale game Ring of Elysium. A self portait, [vlogfall] produces Selfie, made in response to vlog production for a digital artist residency, Floating Reverie, becomes a horizontal plane. A depiction of an existential ontology of the now now now for the subject project, the image scrunches into a field plane for sound reactive virtual foliage. The trap of digital apparatuses that first appeared as an escape.

Excerpt from an OBS screen capture desktop documentary RersurrExit Elysium. A forgetful recording of self exploitation, life as an archive in filter bubbles, artificiality and affects of authenticity.

Time acquires duration and contemplative space again. Long take time images, toad leaps and Carabao, a water buffalo native to the Philippines.