Paul Mortimore – Digital Director
Film short: Suspicious Minds
Paul Mortimore is a designer, artist, and digital director working across a range of media. Originally from London, he started out in 1995 cut and pasting Rock 'n' Roll posters in Denver Colorado USA. Since then he has worked and collaborated with Burberry, BBC, Heaven Nightclub, Sky, Carl Cox, Red Bull, Mixmag, Fabio & Grooverider, Philippe Patek, Saatchi & Saatchi.
His work explores themes of identity, cultural synthesis, and performativity. His hands-on approach to writing, designing, directing, shooting, and editing, combined with his passion for cinéma vérité style filmmaking has made him an innovator and leader in the industry. Devoted to bringing each creative vision to life, striving with each project to make a distinct experience that captivates and engages audiences in new ways.
Suspicious Minds
by Paul Mortimore
From The Rockabillies of Kyoto to The Cowboys of Leningrad, this is the story of Joelson an Elvis street busker from Brazil. Living his dream one Sunday afternoon in Trafalgar Square London. This reality film is part of his reflective series looking at ways American popular culture is synthesised around the world.
Content Copyright © Paul Mortimore
Image courtesy of Paul Mortimore
127 Velocities
by Sequin Kay & Paul Mortimore
Paul Mortimore and Sequin Kay present to you a slice of the sublime in an immersive audiovisual experience reimaginaing the German Philosopher Immanuel Kant’s definitive statement on the sublime.
Through the mathematical precision of the digital realm and the dynamic intuitive nature of hand-made art, they challenge, collaborate and experiment to interpret and showcase a personal vision of The Sublime State through merging and uniting their disciplines.
Both artists are international contemporary practitioners working in diverse fields of the creative industries and have come to together to inspire and uplift the two worlds of Fine Art and Digital Art. This immersive Audio-visual psychoactive experience features digital projection and spatial audio with chronotherapeutic and subsonic healing properties. Dating back thousands of years to the ancient cultures of Egypt, China and India, this geometric design is divided into 128 positional rings which intersect 127 velocities.
This produces up to millions of combinations of light of varying wavelengths, thus each colour has its own particular wavelength and energy. Hand embroidered sequin crystal and bead-embellished artworks have been documented through digitalised HD Filmmaking and re-constructed through cutting edge digital techniques. These include; digital post-production, video mapping, live visual control, intelligent and highly contemporary custom sensor reactive projection software. This has abstracted the original textile artworks and through this, they have taken on a whole new meaning and are now perceived in a new and dynamic way. In essence, this Audio-visual piece is an experimental and dynamic fusion of traditional handcrafted textile art and audiovisual digital mastery, we see traditional embroidery techniques transformed through the lens of modern technology. This enjoyable immersion takes viewers on a visual, emotional and transcendent journey to ultimately uplift and cultivate a sense of awe.
Content Copyright © Sequin Kay & Paul Mortimore
Image courtesy of Paul Mortimore