About

Atticus Affleck is a multimedia artist, primarily focused on experimental filmmaking and video art. His work leans more towards the abstract, messy, and unintelligible, because he feels these more authentically express lived-experience. A mistrust for words, strict definitions, and art which is too clean, too simple, too easily understood, has inclined him toward that which is quieter in its conveyance, art which values emotional experience over rational digestion. These include the work of influences such as Terrence Malick, Virginia Woolf, David Lynch, and Adam Curtis. In the Little Prince, the prince says, “What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere…Whether it’s a house or the stars or the desert, what makes them beautiful alone is invisible.” Art should not flatten the most beautiful aspect of life, but should cradle it, nurse it, and allow it to bloom. That is the intention of Affleck’s work: the preservation and expression of the unknown; to capture what words and numbers alone cannot, to move outside the binaries of strict definitions, and feel out the aspects of human life which are quieter, more mysterious—and more important for it—and to express these silent humanities in a way which is neither commentary nor analysis, but genuine expression.