EN-PERFECCION: pixila(C)tion
IN-PERFEZIONE — A Ritual in Frames
A short experimental film by MATERIA PRIMA | Duration: 4 min 30 sec
Born from the legacy of Japan’s Ankoku-Butō movement and fused with contemporary visual performance, IN-PERFEZIONE is an intense short film exploring the raw power of the body in transformation.
Filmed using the pixilation technique — a form of stop-motion animation where live performers are photographed frame by frame — this work turns human movement into something fragmented, ghostlike, and hypnotically unnatural. Each gesture becomes sculptural. Each shift in posture, a violent rebirth.
The naked bodies of the performers, painted, covered in gold and mud, are not symbolic — they are living matter, constantly mutating before your eyes. Rather than telling a story, IN-PERFEZIONE creates a chain of metamorphoses, pushing the body beyond identity, beyond gender, beyond time.
🎥 For lovers of Butoh, experimental film, and ritualized performance art.
What is imperfect does not lack wholeness — it reveals it.
Filmed using the pixilation technique — a form of stop-motion animation where live performers are photographed frame by frame — this work turns human movement into something fragmented, ghostlike, and hypnotically unnatural.