Down the Rabbit Hole Festival 2016 (2016)

At just over a minute in length, the title sequence for Dutch festival Down The Rabbit Hole is a transcendental fall through colour and shape and the edge of madness. Created by brothers Merijn and Jurriaan Hos, the sequence is a fantasia of forms with waves of impossible movement, rotating orbs and shining spheres, skeletal flora and bursts of pattern that push at the seams, growing curiouser and curiouser.

"Did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?" asked the Dormouse in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and here the Hos brothers answer, blurring the lines between two- and three-dimensional space, using music as propellant, an usher beyond the boundaries of experience, with moments of quiet purity and strange fascination. After a fall such as this, it's no wonder the festival is able to grow each year, inviting successive streams of attendees to return in search of the fantastic.

A discussion with Art Director and Illustrator MERIJN HOS and Animator JURRIAAN HOS.

So, Merijn and Jurriaan, you're brothers and you work together on projects. Can you give us a little background on yourselves?

Merijn: I’m an artist and illustrator and occasional art director from Utrecht in the Netherlands. I run my own studio since I graduated, about 12 years ago, from the Utrecht University of the Arts where I studied illustration. I focus on advertising, music, and editorial projects. My work is at first sight happy and colourful, a bit quirky, maybe psychedelic, sometimes a little bit dark and…

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