Anton Cla is a media artist and filmmaker based in Belgium. Working across film, animation, and interactive media, he interrogates the mechanics of contemporary narrative through digital animation and game aesthetics. His practice reflects a critical engagement with mainstream cinematic forms, reconfiguring their political and emotional codes through constructed, atmospheric timelines. Drawing on the symbolic and expressive traditions of modernist painting in Belgium, his work leans into dissonance: immersive landscapes repurposing traditional spectacle through abstract structures that unravel undercurrents of human tension and societal instability.
Anton Cla
double bill #27
curated by Nikita Diakur
In Anton Cla’s Cyclepaths and Dimitri Venkov’s The Hymns of Muscovy, time is cyclical rather than progressive, and cities are reimagined as unstable, self-referential environments. Both films examine how systems outlive the individuals moving within them.