Nothing Exists Until It Moves | Duration: 9m | Single Channel | 4K Resolution | 25fps
Directors: Sophie Hutchinson, Billy Kemp
Ireland, 2025
A movement study in transformation, presence, and the unseen forces that shape what we perceive, Nothing Exists Until It Moves is a short film that uses a computer-vision technique called frame differencing to extract and emphasise all movement within a moving image. Filmed on location at Joya: arte + ecología / AiR - Cortijada Los Gázquez, Vélez Blanco, Spain
A body encounters an unseen environment, revealed only through its disturbance. The earth shifts, stones scatter, and bushes tremble toward consciousness, unveiling the subtle violence of existence. The screen becomes a space where movement alone defines existence, blurring the line between body and environment.
Installation 25 - 29 March '26 in EyeFilmmuseum Amsterdam
commissioned by Cine Dans Festival
Mutoscope desugned and built in collaboration with Nico Nieuwstraten with parts 3D prints at Fab Lab Limerick.