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The Teaser for 'Chronicles Of Shpongle', a Forthcoming Film by Paul Gondry



Imagine being trapped on acid in the worst place imaginable and you might be getting close to the Chronicles of Shpongle: a morbid hallucinatory universe siphoned from the horror of contemporary America, where the aesthetics of mental illness, addiction, disease and endless garbage are jerryrigged into an alchemical contraption designed to fuck you up.

While this painstaking creative direction might draw comparisons to ambitous artists like Gilliam or Giger, the biggest influence at play with Shpongle is the anonymous internet: impossible, cursed images and creepypastas found on tumlbr and reddit, whose refusal of context and reference have elevated them to mythological status.

Shpongle's output has taken the form of sculpture, drawing, writing, and costume, culminating together in film: like a Jackass episode directed by Matthew Barney on 4K, Shpongle is and arduous and intoxicating form of endurance based cinema.

— Asher Penn
Paul Gondry

'ABSINTHE', Group Show Curated by PLAGUE at Smena, Kazan

'Pupila' by Elizabeth Burmann Littin at Two seven two gallery, Toronto

'Auxiliary Lights' by Kai Philip Trausenegger at Bildraum 07, Vienna

'Inferno' by Matthew Tully Dugan at Lomex, New York

'Зamok', Off-Site Group Project at dentistry Dr. Blumkin, Moscow

'Dog, No Leash', Group Show at Spazio Orr, Brescia

'Syllables in Heart' by Thomas Bremerstent at Salgshallen, Oslo

'Out-of-place artifact', Off-Site Project by Artem Briukhov in Birsk Fortress, Bi

'Gardening' by Daniel Drabek at Toni Areal, Zurich

'HALF TRUTHS', Group Show at Hackney Road, E2 8ET, London

'Unknown Unknowns' by Christian Roncea at West End, The Hague

'Thinking About Things That Are Thinking' by Nicolás Lamas at Meessen De Clercq,

‘Funny / Sad’, Group Show by Ian Bruner, Don Elektro & Halo, curated by Rhizome P

'Don’t Die', Group Show at No Gallery, New York

'Almost Begin' by Bronson Smillie at Afternoon Projects, Vancouver

'I'll Carry Your Heart's Gray Wing with a Trembling Hand to My Old Age', Group Sh

'hapy like a fly' by Clément Courgeon at Colette Mariana, Barcelona

'Fear of the Dark' by Jack Evans at Soup, London

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