Re-percussions (2021) (in collaboration with Mak Hepler-Gonzalez)
looping HD (1080p) video with stereo sound
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Mak Hepler-Gonzalez: 3D modeling, 3D animation
Marlena Novak: director, concept development, text animation
Jay Alan Yim: sound design, mixing

Enbridge’s Line 3 project is sadly only one of the most recently contested situations where aging fossil fuel infrastructure threatens water safety, disrupts healthy ecosystems, and trespasses on indigenous lands. Re-percussions dramatizes how disastrous unintended consequences can be. The looping video is a metaphor for the repetitive fallacy of entrusting the environment to corporations—like Enbridge, whose logo features a yellow ‘E’—that are ultimately motivated by profit above all else.