This product contains the following three short films by Oliver Hockenhull

*** Viewer discretion is advised. This program contains strobing, flashing lights and visual patterns that may affect viewers with photosensitive epilepsy or similar sensitivities. ***

hand made electricity
(2014, 7 minutes)

Inspired by the pioneering work of Norman McLaren, “hand made electricity” is an experimental visual music film created through direct painting on film. Vibrant colors, shifting forms, and rhythmic movement merge with Lisa Walker's music to create a dynamic audiovisual experience that explores perception, time, and abstraction.

A Cherenkov Radiation: Jewelry Box Meltdown
(2015, 3 minutes)

Oliver Hockenhull’s mesmerizing computer-animated short transforms the physics of Cherenkov radiation into a kaleidoscopic visual experience. Pulsing with luminous colours and rapidly evolving forms, the film evokes mandalas, crystals, organic structures, and abstract energy fields. Accompanied by shimmering music, this hypnotic work explores the beauty hidden within the fundamental structures of matter. Ideal for screenings, galleries, and exhibition installations.
"It is as if you are looking at Meaning itself, traveling down to the realms below ordinary experience where the energy patterns that generate the world are circulating. The music combines brilliant, sustained chords with shimmering notes.
Hockenhull writes that the mathematics which generate this video represent the radiation emitted by charged particles. Its beauty is generated by a deep structural quality of matter itself, translated through Hockenhull’s artistic skill. The mesmerizing quality of the film comes from the rapid and unceasing changes, so that the beauty always seems to be slipping through your grasp."
- David Finkelstein, filmmaker, musician, and critic. Review published on Film Scratches.

Robot Pavlov Sputnik
(2016, 7 minutes)

Drawing inspiration from Norman McLaren's groundbreaking animated film “Synchromy”, “Robot Pavlov Sputnik” reimagines machine art from the digital age. Combining archival imagery, animation, and abstract visual rhythms, Oliver Hockenhull creates a vibrant meditation on technology, communication, space exploration, and collective consciousness.

Clips composited:
"Synchromy" McLaren (1971)
"Devil Girls From Mars" (1954)
Pudovkin's "Mechanics of the Brain"(1926), a study of Pavlov's classical conditioning experiments
Animation Sputnik launch (1957)

Director and Producer: Oliver Hockenhull
Quality Digital Print available for screenings, gallery presentations and exhibitions.