Nasty Sugar Said Fly, As We Danced

On Top Of Mars, 2020

An animated film exploring the relationship between the digital and the physical worlds and how they interact with one another. Through 3D scanning software, sculpture and photogrammetry, Ellie has created a series of whimsical, animated entities that exist together, flying and dancing in a utopian state. The manipulation of the tactile, physical sculptures to glitchy, digital objects offers an insight into the future possibilities of touch and technology.

Nasty Sugar Said Fly, As We Danced On Top Of Mars was made during the pandemic, when Ellie was experimenting with her dad’s 1999 Kaoss pad. The work playfully explores a fantasy of finding love on the internet, with cyber born character ‘Nasty Sugar’ and deciding to remain in the idyllic space. It explores the hedonist view that pleasure is the solution to happiness.