Reflective Encounters

“A meditative eco-horror film, in which a living landscape undulates, throbs and breathes with life. The ever-evolving land grows, pupates and oozes in ways that are reminiscent of both the awesomeness of nature and the innately human stages of puberty, birthing new creatures and continuously changing before turning inevitably to the way of all flesh; ripping, rotting and decaying before becoming an arid wasteland. The computer-generated imagery never becomes so real as to become uncomfortable, creating instead an environment that stops short of grotesquery and verging on the visionary, exemplifying alternative or potential future worlds that combine organic life in new hybrid ways unthinkable to us now. 

Boddysey offers a Dali-esque use of anamorphic image creation in which rocks and mountains look like body parts, creating a biological dreamscape that draws parallels between our own human ageing process and our stripping of the planet's natural resources, leaving it both desiccated and on the verge of destruction. The film is a vivid reimagining of the global environmental crisis and our own eventual self-destruction, as well as a possible alternative – that of merging ourselves with our landscape as the next step in the evolution of the earth.”

— Laura-Beth Cowley