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Directed by: Christopher Rohde - 

Role: Production Assistant - 2014

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Endless Fun is a looped video installation that uses handmade miniatures to depict the queuing area of an unpopulated amusement park ride. Decorative passenger carts, animated with stop-motion, come to a stop at a vacant platform and raise their mechanized safety barriers for no one before setting off again in an endless cycle. The ride and its design elements are Tiki-themed, referencing Disney’s appropriation of Polynesian iconography across various media since the 1960s, but through its evocation of the uncanny, Endless Fun turns a critical eye towards the haunted nature of Disney’s cultural colonization, and conjures up notions of purgatory, limbo and the infinite.

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Endless Fun was commissioned for the group exhibition Disney Made Me Do It and presented as part of the 2014 Ottawa International Animation Festival.

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Production Stills: Christoper Rohde

Documentation Images: Paul Dickie and Petr Maur