About the Liminal Soup Blog

I’ve decided to start a blog. But why a blog and why liminal and why soup?

I’ve spent the majority of the past 25 years working in experimental modes of filmmaking (including experimental animation and experimental documentary), so this blogging thing is new territory for me. But again, why blog and why now?

After 10 years of working on an ongoing animated trilogy centered around the concept of a future intelligence developing its own creation mythology based on bits and pieces of humanity’s online legacy, I find myself with a mountain of partially digested research on topics such as Gnosticism, posthumanism, technology and the environment, and various creation mythologies. I also find that I have a 13-minute film and a 9.5-minute film that I could talk about for hours - not necessarily about the films in and of themselves, but about the ideas within the films. Put another way, the films exist as icebergs poking through the ocean waves and the concepts anchoring the films are the exponentially larger parts of the icebergs below the surface.

With this blog, my hope is to take a deep dive on various topics related to my more recent films. The films themselves are portals to what I think are some pretty interesting conceptual landscapes.

My creative work explores the commonalities and crossovers between the more-than-human world, virtual landscapes, and states of consciousness. Connecting those topics is what this blog is all about.

So why the blog title, “Liminal Soup?” Liminality is a state of being in between. The topics I explore are between the real and imaginary; between the mythical and concrete. Our internet existence plays in a liminal state where facts and alternative facts coexist to create greater mythical truths. Consider a liminal soup as an intermediary realm where disparate ideas and conceptual textures marinate and change their isolated traits under the heat of yummy speculation.

Ultimately, I want to create the blog I would be interested in reading. What happens when you throw an appreciation for the natural environment, technology, and different ways of knowing in the same stew?