Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016

Aidan Koch has described the woman who appears in the animation Light drifting up a wall as being “caught in a cyclical state of vulnerability and ephemerality . . . a mere projection of her own insecure state.” Projected onto a drawing made directly on the wall, the film’s hybrid form reveals Koch’s roots in comics and graphic novels—a pared-down, layered form of visual storytelling in which words and images each inform the meaning of the other. A similar unfolding can be seen nearby in the original drawings for Koch’s graphic novel Little Angels, which hint at the beginnings of a feeling or story that emerges page by page.