Delf

Two tadpole-like creatures with enormous eyes chase each other around a womb-like tunnel, to a driving techno soundtrack by Pitch Black. The creatures collide and suddenly find themselves plunged into a different reality where a single wrong move could mean they exist in only two dimensions. The creatures must work together to restore the third dimension and spare themselves a flattened fate. After completing this mind-bending mini-rollercoaster ride, creator James Cunningham and his producing partner Paul Swadel worked together on bank robbery tale Infection, which scored multiple awards. 

[James] Cunningham's witty computer-generated film illustrates the consequences that unfold when the digital meets hard reality . . . Cunningham's video takes an interesting turn when one of the creatures knocks over the y-axis, which then flattens the other organism. The two 'DELF's (Digitally Engineered Life Forms) have to make sense of their environment in order to escape. The creatures come into conflict with the traditional laws of linear perspective on a mesh battlefield of graphs and axes and must plot their exit from the Cartesian infrastructure.    

– The Queensland Art Gallery describes this film

Key Cast & Crew

James Cunningham

Director, Writer, Animator

Paul Swadel

Producer

Dick Reade

Audio Post-Production

Mike Hodgson

Composer

Dave Whitehead

Sound Mix, Sound Design

Paddy Free

Composer