STLLR: Anthology // 3. Patterns of Discognition

“STLLR: Anthology“ (2015-2018) is an abstract and poetic grimoire touching upon themes of primordial nucleosynthesis, interstellar extinction, ancient mystical astrology and celestial geometry, linking these with mental phenomena and cognitive disorders. This experimental 3D animation movie consists of five main chapters: - Celestial Autopsy - Patterns of Discognition - Argo - Magical Spontaneity, Parts 1-3 - Hell is a Catalog of Landscape Metaphors The collection of vertiginous philosophy-fiction essays makes use of innovative, mostly procedural 3D visualization techniques to create a visual metaphor for the seamy side of sensation: an uncanny domain inaccessible for human thought. Channeling the work of such thinkers and visionaries as Johannes Kepler, G. W. Leibniz, Athanasius Kircher and French psychiatrist Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (as well as his muse, artist and occult scholar Levania N. Vandervelden) transports STLLR: Anthology its audience into a radic