A pre-apocalyptic midnight walk takes you through a burning forest to witness a looming destruction. A fire in the forest either marks an impending doom or serves as a metaphysical gateway between realities.

What is The Transient? It is that fleeting moment when you question what you are seeing, when uncanny valley takes over and when harmonious wildlife is revealed as a monstrous result of cloning and obsessive manipulation of nature. Or the moment when you ignore the lure of the real and give in to the overwhelming beauty of growth, the blooming of spring and the glow of midsummer night. Real, based on a true story, artificial, imaginary, a natural paradise, an apocalyptic corruption of nature. The Transient is all of these things and more.

Chinese classical gardens are a synthesis of a thousand years of landscaping, architecture, poetry and painting. The idealized artificial terrain of the gardens have influenced artists for centuries to create architypal landscapes images, which in turn have inspired garden design. The gardens are trancendental spaces, providing artificial landscapes and virtual oases to silence the surrounding megalopolitan overload. In their new work The Eternal chaos animators Pink Twins distort the views of gardens with a crystal-like caleidoscopic tunnel, adding a psychedelic layer to ancient harmonic panoramas.

Impossible architecture, an ancient burial ground and a lure for psychotic janitors were the building blocks of Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. In this story vignette, chaos animators Pink Twins add zero gravity and a rupture in time-space continuum to the mix and serve a taster of subtle cosmic horror.

Parametronomicon presents a model of parametric virtual life. A biomechanic organism moves, multiplies and regenerates in an elaborate series of convulsive movements. Its life spans from simple formations to inevitable apocalyptic visions of an over-the-top visual orgy.

The triptych version expands the parametric concept further by presenting simultaneously three alternative evolutionary arcs on three screens. The three versions retain the same dramaturgy, but each follows a different route through the parametric space. Pink Twins keep true to their “more is more” ethos with this expanded installation version and provide an immersive and synesthetic experience.

Parametronomicon (triptych) technical specifications (PDF)

Parametronomicon presents a model of parametric virtual life. A biomechanic organism moves, multiplies and regenerates in an elaborate series of convulsive movements. Its life spans from simple formations to inevitable apocalyptic visions of an over-the-top visual orgy.

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Parametronomicon presents a model of parametric virtual life. A biomechanic organism moves, multiplies and regenerates in an elaborate series of convulsive movements. Its life spans from simple formations to inevitable apocalyptic visions of an over-the-top visual orgy.

Note: This is a shorter, screening-friendly version.

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Conductor is a hypnotic trip through a wormhole. Stare into the void during an ever-accelerating journey into a crystalline cosmic tunnel and the quantum space of archaic grey psychedelia stares right back at you. Conductor is a silent animation that can be projected or installed on a monitor, either horizontally or vertically.

Laws of physics get distorted in this epic animation, where a spiralling organism mutates and reforms itself from primary structures to chaotic noise and harmonic caleidoscopic formations. Explosions of light and euphoric electronic music follow a miracle of synthetic life, evolution and afterlife.

Note: This is the full-length 32-minute version of Miracle, primarily presented as an installation. For screenings, the 8-minute version will probably be more suitable.

Laws of physics get distorted in this epic animation, where a spiralling organism mutates and reforms itself from primary structures to chaotic noise and harmonic caleidoscopic formations. Explosions of light and euphoric electronic music follow a miracle of synthetic life, evolution and afterlife.

Pink Twins, the masters of reality, unleash their fury and wipe your retinae clean with this wild amalgamation of structuralism, chaotic 3D programming, digital video feedback, landscape imagery and moving action painting, backed by tasteful electroacoustic piano magic.

A spectacle of grandiose spaces, monumental halls and majestic architecture. Defenestrator shows Larger-than life buildings disintegrate, deform and transform into a flowing stream of lava, creating new distorted spaces and recycles overpowering architectural constructions into building blocks of a new order.

A minimal and profound study of abstract space, architecture and morality. A room is scanned from the inside and the outside by particles drifting along fixed threedimensional coordinates. The soundtrack is an interpretation of the prison blues traditional No More My Lord.

Appetite for Construction takes modernist painting, constructivism and abstract expressionism as its inspiration. A completely abstract video, Appetite draws connections from modernist ideals to the visual language of Pink Twins’ digitally generated moving image. From systematic constructions to explosions of colour and form, the video celebrates light, form, colour and function, all rendered in glorious chaotic 3D!

Re-edit of Sketches Of Pain – Shorter, faster, louder, and with added psychedelia.

In August 2006 Pink Twins played in Mongolia’s oldest disco (Chameleon Disco Club in Ulaanbaatar) together with a local metal band Zugeer L. Sketches of Pain is based on the footage of the concert. Rather than a direct documentary, the video is a psychedelic treatment, a re-interpretation of a meeting of people and artists with little in common other than music. What happens when artists of different cultural background, different language and different musical conventions take the stage together? Achieving a meeting point unavoidably involves great pain.

Pulse + is an updated version of the 2006 video “Pulse”.
Pulse + is a reconstruction of a natural phenomenon. A satellite photo of a Siberian glacier is transformed through 3D animation and digital manipulation into an ice storm, raging to the rhythm of a regular pulse. The multidimensional work consists of found footage layers and parallel rhythms. The chaos of the nature is harnessed to a rhythm and format that is easier to grasp by a human being.

A spatial study, based on the 2003 video “Goth”. Original images from a particle accelerator laboratory are fused into a steady, slowly transforming landscape. Distanced from its technical origins, through digital manipulation, the image surface is dissolved and reformed into an earth-toned organic space, seemingly desolate, but swarming with life.

An abstract sci-fi epic, where satellite photos from the surface of planet earth are reformed into a hypnotic cosmic stream. A static, frozen, transforming and moving space in which matter, light and colour is interleaved with the darkness of the void to create a new universe.

A journey into the depths of a landscape. It delves deeply into the secrets of basic particles of digital moving image. A single satellite photo of a glacier is transformed into whirls of motion, resembling natural phenomena, blizzards, storms, rain. All this is fixed into a steady pulsing rhythm, allowing change and tranformation be woven into a static continuity.

A macrocosmos of interleaving streams of colour, a digital mass of endlessly transforming surface. Created from satellite photos and transformed into a richly detailed, multilayered landscape, the static motion of Splitter creates a sacramental space that carries the layers of our perception and conciousness.

Box is based on photographs from Tunguska, Siberia, where a large area of land was destroyed when a huge meteorite exploded above ground in 1908. The video is a slow composition, where landscape images go through several stages of transformation. The video material which was further developed into “Box” was originally made for a stage version of Stalker by the Strugatski brothers, produced by Circus Maximus at Helsinki City Theater.

Shots from a particle accelerator laboratory processed into a hyper-fast, highly textured imagery. Digital image processing and noisy soundtrack create a dark sonata of deep shadows and brilliant highlights.

An overwhelming epic about the relations of people, nature and technology. Full of ritual and trance-inducing signs, Purple Drain plumbs the depths of image distortion. Dizzy images of wires and machines are atomized, pixellated and turned into multicoloured washes, lines and blooming streams of colour.

A slowly transforming digital painting. Images of landscapes, cities, space and cellular stuctures slowly weaving into each other.

Sex, wrestling and rock’n’roll. Paini is the wrestling sequence of Fast and can be screened separately.

“A chaotic stream of media imagery that denies its origin; enchanting variations of sea, sky and clouds, images of houses on fire and cells and bacteria seen through a microscope build up to a climatic wrestling sequence, a stunning kaleidoscope of colour.”

A sequence of flickering images of flying saucers, blown-up fragments, coloured patterns that reveal the hidden within the familiar.

An endless, real-time, two-channel video with multi-channel sound, based on the video “Box”. Exhibited once, in Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, 2004.

An endless, real-time computer-generated video, running on Framestein software. Updated versions made in 2003, 2004 and 2005.