Haikuloop is an ongoing archive of rotoscoped animations that transforms human movement into short visual poems. Drawn frame by frame from live-action footage, each loop reimagines gestures of play, balance, ritual, and contemplation through subtle interventions where reality and imagination converge.

Often escaping notice, these gestures emerge as quiet sites of resistance to productivity, performance, and acceleration. Inspired by the brevity and openness of haiku poetry, the animations function as autonomous fragments while contributing to a larger constellation of moving images. Together, they form an evolving atlas of actions and transient states of being, revealing the poetic potential embedded in the dialogue between the ordinary and the extraordinary.

Haikuloop proposes a slow engagement with images and movement, one grounded in attention, presence, and wonder.

Original soundtrack by Angelo Di Guglielmo.

Experimental extension of the Haikuloop project: Haikuloop Spatial Sequence

This installation explores the presentation of multiple animations through video mapping. Individual loops are projected onto a linear sequence of small hand-knitted square surfaces, creating a constellation of interconnected moving images distributed across space.

The installation invites viewers to navigate a collection of autonomous visual fragments. The arrangement echoes the structure of a poetic sequence, where meaning emerges through proximity, rhythm, and the intervals between images. Animation extends beyond the screen, unfolding across a series of connected surfaces and transforming movement into a spatial experience.