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Every cast in CRASH LAB, by program. Each card links the films a character appears in.
Bola, Shim and little Dot
yellow · red shoes · a bola on a cord for an antenna
The lead dummy. Bola takes the physical, opens the letter, misses the stair and walks into every archive clip in the atlas.
In: The Physical, Crash Lab, CINEOSIS · in the crash lab, CINEOSIS · hybrid pilot, CINEOSIS · hybrid atlas, CINEOSIS · handmade, CINEOSIS · Hand Butter, Handmade · first batch…
teal · blue shoes · six per cent taller than Bola
Bola's partner. Shim holds the door, takes the hug, carries the heavy end and stands beside Bola in the screening room.
In: Crash Lab, CINEOSIS · in the crash lab, CINEOSIS · hybrid pilot, CINEOSIS · handmade, CINEOSIS · Hand Butter, Handmade · signs 1–8, Handmade · signs 13–41
coral · black shoes · seventy-two per cent of Bola's size
Little Dot. She is lifted, carried and passed between the other two, and she runs under what they have to step over.
In: Crash Lab, CINEOSIS · in the crash lab, CINEOSIS · hybrid pilot
grey test dummies · six sizes
The crowd of grey dummies who fill the CINEOSIS worlds: queues, parades, audiences, the people Bola walks through.
the family performs the 45 signs
lilac · blindfolded
The fresh reviewer, made a character in Hand Butter. He wears a blindfold because he sees the pictures but not what was meant, and he judges only what is on the screen.
one book of the Odyssey per episode
The man of many turns. Every episode is his, and every costume below is drawn on his body.
In: Episode 1 · NOBODY, Episode 2 · THE GUEST-GIFT, Episode 3 · THE RAFT, Episode 4 · CIRCE, Episode 5 · THE BLOOD, Episode 6 · THE KNOT, Episode 7 · THE LOOP, Drawn tests · NOBODY, THE SIRENS, ARGOS…
The vase-painting style used for title cards and flashbacks: every fill black, every line incised.
His companions, who open the bag of winds, eat the cattle and are turned into pigs.
In: Episode 2 · THE GUEST-GIFT, Episode 4 · CIRCE, Episode 6 · THE KNOT
The Cyclops of Episodes 1 and 2, who asks the hero's name and is told "Nobody".
Decides by stamping a rubber stamp on the screen where the gods watch Odysseus (Episode 3).
Sent to Calypso's island (Episode 3); flickers like an unsettled projection as he brings the moly (Episode 4).
Keeps Odysseus on her island for seven years and builds the raft that takes him off (Episode 3).
The god who wrecks the raft (Episode 3).
Her cup and wand fail against the moly; on "You are Odysseus" the wand drops from her hand (Episodes 4 and 6).
Compiles herself from grey box to ink to colour on the shore of Ithaca (Episode 7).
The blind seer: he drinks, gets his colour, and warns him off the herds of the Sun (Episode 5).
His mother. He tries three times to hold her, and each time his arms close through her (Episode 5).
The king who never blinks; Odysseus draws his eyelids down for him, and they stay open (Episode 5).
Drinks in a white field, and his colour leaves with him as he strides away (Episode 5).
Stands apart the whole time, never drinks, and goes away in silence (Episode 5).
After the credits of Episode 5 his stone gets away from him and rolls back down past him.
The disguise Athena puts on him, skin, hair, eyes and rags, one part per word (Episode 7).
Where You Go When You Leave · the cel layer
a jointed paper cut-out from his own photograph · brass pins · paper hands
Cut into eleven pieces along his bones and moved by the rig like paper on a table. Replacement heads come from every photograph of him.
six heads, mirrored to twelve turns
Front, three-quarter and profile heads, the head bowed in red light, the hand at the glasses and the camera held to the face, chosen frame by frame from the rig's turn and her words.
In: Poem 07