Angel T. Dionne is a surrealist author and professor at the University of Moncton’s Edmundston campus. She obtained her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Pretoria in 2020. She is the author of Garden-Body (Radiant Press, forthcoming) as well as Bird Ornaments (Broken Tribe Press, 2025) and Sardines (ClarionLit, 2023). She takes her coffee black and her fish tinned.
“Revival is an avant-garde, fever-dream assemblage of hand-drawn stop-motion animation and forgotten public domain footage from early 1900s educational films, surrealist experiments, silent cinema, and home movies. The result is a deliberately disjointed, grainy collage of jarring fragments overlaid with unsettling audio. Revival explores the strange beauty found in birth, death, and decay by repurposing forgotten media. In death, we are often overlooked and left behind, much like forgotten media of decades past. Revival was screened during the 2025 Heron Bay Film Festival.
“My written and visual work situates itself within the context of the contemporary surrealist movement. I believe that experimentalism and surrealism are revolutionary acts against the rise of generative AI.”
[Editor’s note: we have highlighted only our favourite of Revival‘s video sources below.]
