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Rainbow Narcosis follows a headless lamb through hallucinatory and otherworldly environments. From the Palais Garnier in Paris, to a modernist loft, the film weaves a cryptic narrative of iconic subject matter relating to wealth and power. Like an alternate reality, elements from contemporary culture coexist with an antiquated past.

American artist Jonathan Monaghan (born 1986, New York) creates animated films that challenge the boundaries between the real, the imagined, and virtual. Pulling from wide-ranging sources such as science fiction and baroque architecture, he creates bizarre, yet compelling, environments and stories with the same high-end technology used by Hollywood and video games. Jonathan received his BFA from the New York Institute of Technology in 2008 and his MFA from the University of Maryland in 2011. His work has been exhibited worldwide in venues such as Bitforms Gallery, BFI Southbank London, The Hirshhorn Museum, and the Moving Image Art Fair. He has given lectures and workshops at the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Denver, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His work has been featured by the Washington Post, Metropolis M, The Huffington Post, TimeOut NY, the Colbert Report, ArtInfo and NYC TV. Monaghan is represented by Curator?s Office in Washington D.C