Unveiling Astonishing Worlds

My lifelong love of film has pushed me in a direction where I try to mimic its form without its substance. Applying the language of cinema to abstract worlds like fractals does something to us - it creates the expectation of a story, which our minds then fill with meaning.

Fractals are in a way the location, subject and production world of my films. They are mathematical spaces that I explore, and tell stories with.

Getting the viewer truly immersed – filling as much of their visual and auditory field with astonishing worlds – is how I hope to instill a sense of awe and wonder.

Working at the scale of domes and large-scale installations is a natural extension of this. At that size, the image stops being something in front of you and becomes a place. A place that nobody has seen right up to the moment it was rendered. They’re not worlds that come from imagination. Rather, they actually exist in a mathematical reality.

Julius Horsthuis