The stills show Luna and Roel in conversation, while others focus on the effect of the make-up “between our ageing faces and the seamless frictionless one dimensional emoji”, says Roel. “In our emoji-face the film depicts the contrast between the emoticons and real emotions with the complexity and subtlety of real life that digital technology cannot reach,” says Luna. “Digital technology that tries to even out all wrinkles of human encounters, with the premise of frictionless interactions.” The film is currently on show in Rotterdam at Nieuwe Instituut’s Reboot: Pioneering Digital Art exhibition until 12 May.
For Luna and Roel, the zine format and Risograph printing methods make perfect sense in reference to their material. “Riso printing, with its tactile qualities and unpredictable colour outcomes, embodies resistance by definition,” says Roel. The zine is part of Hato Press’ Zine Series, a collection of publications that are quick to print, easy to distribute, affordable and agile, to make them as accessible as possible. “The Zine Series gives us an opportunity to disseminate ideas by some of the artists, photographers, designers, writers and makers that we believe are doing the most exciting work today, and to share them with a global audience,” says Hato co-founder Kenjiro Kirton. “When you put something down on paper you make it part of contemporary cultural record. That’s just as powerful an idea now, as it was 100 years ago.”
