Directing

Peter Burr

Born August 3, 1980 (age 46)

Peter Burr (US) is an artist from Brooklyn NY. A master of computer animation with a gift for creating images and environments that hover on the boundary between abstraction and figuration, Burr has in recent years devoted himself to exploring the concept of an endlessly mutating labyrinth. His practice often engages with tools of the video game industry in the form of immersive cinematic artworks…

Known For

gylden load

gylden load · 2007

A load of Halloween monsters freak each other out in a strobing cacophany.

Special Effect

Special Effect · 2014

Channeling Tarkovsky’s Stalker, this film’s fractured and spiralling narrative is traversed through a hypnotising blend of live action and various digital animation styles.

Drop City

Drop City · 2019

Drop City is a portrait of a computer desktop community. It takes its name from the first rural hippy commune in America, a settlement in southern Colorado that formed in 1965 constructed of discarded junk, salvaged car tops, and other detritus fashioned into inventive living structures. A decade later Drop City was completely abandoned. Nothing is left of it today.

The Mess

The Mess · 2016

A journey to the threshold of a utopian labyrinth. We follow the perspective of a solitary woman who descends into an abandoned subterranean arcology. She is tasked with cleaning up the mess that has spawned from this feral structure, becoming lost in the process.

Autumn

Here, between the pixels - a pregnant pause of failure in the lub and dub of one's own heart.

Green | Red

Green | Red · 2014

Burr conjures a shape-shifting world where the sidewalks are endless, the radio is playing electric, and the night sky is broken open by a cataclysm of shuddering stars.

BLACK SQUARE

BLACK SQUARE · 2020

A complex assault of optical illusions, highlighting limitations of the viewers’ own body and mind. What emerges is a portrait of an anxious divided society testing the boundaries of physical awareness.

Pattern Language

Pattern Language · 2017

Pattern Language

MovieDocumentary

Pattern Language describes the aliveness of certain human ambitions through an index of structural patterns.

Filmography

Sort

gylden load

gylden load · 2007

A load of Halloween monsters freak each other out in a strobing cacophany.

Director

Special Effect

Special Effect · 2014

Channeling Tarkovsky’s Stalker, this film’s fractured and spiralling narrative is traversed through a hypnotising blend of live action and various digital animation styles.

Director

Drop City

Drop City · 2019

Drop City is a portrait of a computer desktop community. It takes its name from the first rural hippy commune in America, a settlement in southern Colorado that formed in 1965 constructed of discarded junk, salvaged car tops, and other detritus fashioned into inventive living structures. A decade later Drop City was completely abandoned. Nothing is left of it today.

Director

The Mess

The Mess · 2016

A journey to the threshold of a utopian labyrinth. We follow the perspective of a solitary woman who descends into an abandoned subterranean arcology. She is tasked with cleaning up the mess that has spawned from this feral structure, becoming lost in the process.

Director

Autumn

Here, between the pixels - a pregnant pause of failure in the lub and dub of one's own heart.

Director

Green | Red

Green | Red · 2014

Burr conjures a shape-shifting world where the sidewalks are endless, the radio is playing electric, and the night sky is broken open by a cataclysm of shuddering stars.

Director

BLACK SQUARE

BLACK SQUARE · 2020

A complex assault of optical illusions, highlighting limitations of the viewers’ own body and mind. What emerges is a portrait of an anxious divided society testing the boundaries of physical awareness.

Director

Pattern Language

Pattern Language · 2017

Pattern Language

MovieDocumentary

Pattern Language describes the aliveness of certain human ambitions through an index of structural patterns.

Director

The Comic that Frenches your Mind

The Comic that Frenches your Mind · 2008

The Comic that Frenches your Mind

A 5 minute, 2D, straight-ahead animated film by Bruce Bickford.

Post Producer

Alone with the Moon

Alone with the Moon · 2012

Alone with the Moon

Burr creates a slow, liminal illusion in black-and-white, switching perspectives and matrices and crescendo-ing in time with Christopher Doulgeris’ portentously pulsating soundtrack.

Director

Network Reconstruction Of Nematode Symbionts

Network Reconstruction Of Nematode Symbionts · 2017

Network Reconstruction Of Nematode Symbionts

"Some parasitic nematodes have an endosymbiosic relationship with the bacteria Wolbachia. Here, we reconstruct this symbiotic relationship and break it down, finding ourselves at the model's writhing core."

Director