Watt of Blood

The posthuman movies of Floris Kaayk.

Watt of Blood

METALOSIS MALIGNA

Metalosis Maligna is a documentary about a disease that affects patients with medical implants. Metalosis Maligna occurs when a metal implant interacts badly with human body tissue, causing the metal to grow tendrils, which eventually puncture the skin from within and destroy it. The movie shows the development of the disease from its early stages through to the gory advanced stages, by which point entire sections of flesh have fallen away and all that is left is a skeleton of scrap metal.

 

 

Juxtaposis

Short experimental film. The concept is based on the principe 'growth through battle', the mechanism that creates evolution in nature. Various organisms try to gain terrain by conquering parts of eachothers bodies. Through this battle they grow into more and more complex beings.

 

THE ORIGIN OF CREATURES

The Origin of Creatures is set in an imaginary future where the world is hit by a catastrophe. Among the remains of a devastated city lives that what is left of humanity. Human bodies are divided into separated parts of the body and are fused to special beings. Together, these creatures form a colony. In the rubble of destroyed buildings they are trying to build a nest as large and as high as possible, so that their queen gets enough sunlight to reproduce.

 

 

THE ORDER ELECTRUS

Nature adapts, even to human actions that seem to destroy everything. The amazing power of evolution has given birth to a new species of insect. Their ideal habitats are old industrial locations. Some call them electrical insects, others simply speak of a miraculous phenomenon, or even better, a self-supporting order; the Order Electrus.