Steve Morrison

A ritual of living rocks on a desert stage. Stop motion animation.

This wordless opera is animated and performed by the rising and falling of loaves of bread dough. Inspired by Baroque opera staging, Victorian monodrama, and contemporary design, it explores the corporeal body through the air that passes through it. Funded by a generous grant from Idea Capital.

Animation created using two dimensional cutouts, natural settings, and digital glitches. In this animated painting, a group of strange beings are drawn to a mysterious mountain. They make their way through a natural landscape altered by technological mishaps. Sound environment created using painting studio objects such as brushes and paint bucket lids.

Created using collage, stop motion animation, pixillation, and live action footage. Inspired by Nicolai Gogol’s short story, “The Nose” follows the peregrinations of a part who has left the whole to begin its own subversive narrative.

Stop motion animation using handmade miniatures and time-lapse manipulation. Loosely based around images and ideas from Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” and Bachelard’s “Poetics of Space.” Collaboration with Colin Wheeler.

Stop motion animation.

A ritual of living rocks on a desert stage. Stop motion animation.

This wordless opera is animated and performed by the rising and falling of loaves of bread dough. Inspired by Baroque opera staging, Victorian monodrama, and contemporary design, it explores the corporeal body through the air that passes through it. Funded by a generous grant from Idea Capital.

Animation created using two dimensional cutouts, natural settings, and digital glitches. In this animated painting, a group of strange beings are drawn to a mysterious mountain. They make their way through a natural landscape altered by technological mishaps. Sound environment created using painting studio objects such as brushes and paint bucket lids.

Created using collage, stop motion animation, pixillation, and live action footage. Inspired by Nicolai Gogol’s short story, “The Nose” follows the peregrinations of a part who has left the whole to begin its own subversive narrative.

Stop motion animation using handmade miniatures and time-lapse manipulation. Loosely based around images and ideas from Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” and Bachelard’s “Poetics of Space.” Collaboration with Colin Wheeler.

Stop motion animation.

Experimental animated dance film commissioned by the 2021 Irish Dance Festival.

“Mutabilitie Cantos” explores the amusing existential misadventures of a loose baggy monster and an objective world that refuses to behave as expected. “Mutabilitie Cantos” is a Beckettian buddy comedy between a depressed beast and the darkly unpredictable universe in which he finds himself. It is an animated film using stop-motion and pixillation.

"Akkadian Night Music" is an experimental film using animated flour, puppetry, and stop-frame animation. Inspired by dream sequences from the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, the film enacts a night-theater where nature, denial, regret, and acceptance dance together in a meditative space.

Desiring Objects is an experimental animation using discarded plastic to imagine a post-human future in which our commodities have outlived us and evolved into strange life forms of their own. It also interrogates the theatrical aspect of our understanding of the natural world as portrayed in mass media.