Analemmanode is an experimental film about surfaces and sunken emotions. Feelings of helplessness, rejection, and resignation are observed and twisted into a metaphor for human lives & the judgments passed against us as we navigate the world. The film sees a visual representation of an unknown and unrecognizable “other” performing in some sort of celestial nightclub for an unappreciative audience. The song performed is melancholy and joyless even though the figure is presented as a bright beam of light. This dichotomy underlines how the viewing the physicality of someone or something can obfuscate it’s true meaning or in the sense of a person, cause one to be prejudged according to how they look rather than the contents of their soul or mind.
Toban Nichols, is a visual artist & filmmaker whose work has been seen in film festivals & galleries in LA & around the world. He was also featured in Pop Rally at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. After earning a Bachelors degree in painting, he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute where he received an MFA in New Genres. He has been granted a residency with the Experimental Television Center in NY, & awarded the Juror's Pick at the ArtHouse Film Festival. In the past eight years Nichols launched a line of textiles, created a photo app for mobile devices worldwide and published his first photo book titled 'MY TWIN'. He is currently in post-production on his first feature length documentary titled “Beyond the Trees” for wide release in 2021 as well as teaching visual arts & photography to underserved youth in Los Angeles after school programs and juvenile detention centers for the past two years.
