This film started as an exercise to illustrate all sorts of feelings the artist had during the pandemic. He felt like he was chasing these feelings around in his head. But it also felt like these feelings were chasing him around, like they knew he wouldn’t catch them. He chose to incorporate the symbol of the fox to represent this sensation since it is often characterized as a sly and cunning creature. The film is really about is the connection between all of these scenes. It is the unconscious flowing of thoughts and feelings and the fluid way in which thoughts form in the artist’s brain for just a moment before vanishing. He wanted to visualize that kind of cerebral procession and show it almost as a force of nature leading the viewer from scene to scene in very much the same way that his mind leads him around from thought to thought.
Alec Iselin was born and raised in Akron, Ohio in 1992. He was in junior high when he had the realization that he wanted to become a filmmaker. As a teenager, Alec made several no-budget films with his friends, usually shooting the whole film in a single afternoon in his parents' backyard. While in high school, Alec began learning digital compositing and fx by watching and reading online tutorials. In 2010 Alec moved to Brooklyn to study Film and Video production at Pratt Institute. At Pratt Alec leaned into his digital compositing skills and began to shift his focus to CGI. After graduating he began his career in the commercial animation industry, eventually becoming a technical director at a major animation studio in New York. In 2021 he launched his own company, Shiba Creative. And a year later Alec completed his first short film "The Image of The Fox".
