NEVERENDING STORIES by Boris Eldagsen feels like you’ve wandered into a Hammer horror film on the brink of total existential collapse. The visuals pulse between memory and nightmare — absurd spaces and strange figures that come and go like half-forgotten thoughts. It’s as if Tarkovsky’s Stalker got hijacked by Camus.

Like a Sisyphean cycle of coming back to the same place but never quite arriving, the loop stands in for both an escape and a trap.

“As a child of the 70s I grew up with black and white television and was fascinated by Boris Karloff, once because I had been given the same rare name, also because I was fascinated by the 30’s horror films with him and Bela Lugosi. As a teenager it was Kafka, later Camus Sisyphus and Peter Greenaway that impressed me. I studied philosophy and art, because I believed that both provided an answer to the big questions of life. Instead, I could only ask them better. Today my approach is psychological, I am interested in the unconscious mechanisms of the human mind.”

From the first flickering image, you’re thrust into a disorienting space that feels more like a mental landscape than a physical one. The human form is present, but always distant, always dissolving—like a memory that never fully belonged to you. Scenes jump and flicker, almost like the film itself is being erased as it’s playing.

Eldagsen isn’t interested in comforting the viewer. The visuals pulse with a rhythmic unease, blurring the line between reality and a half-remembered nightmare. It’s as if you’re trapped in the liminal space between waking and sleeping, where everything feels both familiar and terrifyingly unfamiliar.

“These videos were created as an impulse for an inner journey. As a viewer, ask yourself what memories, emotions, thoughts are triggered and why”. 

Beckett would have loved these videos. It’s existentialism with a gothic twist, touching on the absurdity of trying to connect with or searching for something. Whatever is searched for — it’s always slipping away. This video doesn’t just ask what it means to belong; it makes you question whether you were ever truly there to begin with.

Note: These AI-animated videos are based on AI-images that I generated in weeks of experiments. They were then animated with AI, extended and cut into a loop in a video programme. I also generated the music as my own version of ‘Doom Jazz’. NEVERENDING-STORIES is pure digital art, AI-generated from A to Z.”