Catch the West Coast premiere of Automatic Cities artist Matthew Ritchie’s first feature-length film, Line Shot (2009).

This unique feature length digital animation weaves together exuberant utopian narratives and arcane creation myths, resulting in something Ritchie describes as “Fantasia for physicists.” 

The animation follows the imaginary path of a single particle shot from the smallest sub-atomic scale to the final heat death. As the particle metamorphoses from quantum state, to atom, to grass, to feather, to flint ax, to ball, to seed, to train, and finally back to atom, dream-like visuals of abstract forces form and dissolve and worlds and civilizations rise and fall, as unseen narrators read fragments of texts reflecting on the twin ideas of creation and sacrifice.

Taking the premise of Charles & Ray Eames Powers of Ten into the purely creative space of the artists' imagination, Line Shot proposes a method of representing not just the known universe but of every potential representation of the universe.