INFINITEMOTHER_V2.0
Infinite Mother is a series of video game film shorts that deconstructs and reconstructs the role of mother in a video game world.
Artist
Pearlyn Lii
Directors
Pearlyn Lii
Alex Darby
Greg Truono
Prashast Thapan
Team
Alex Darby (Producer and Executive Producer), The Hybrid Studio (Production & Post-Production), Pariah Interactive (Animation & Production), nonstudio (Production), Greg Truono (Editor), Taüs Jafar (Composer & Sound Design), Mio Ishikawa in role of ‘Mother’ (Motion Capture Performance and Choreography), and Kevin Pajarillaga in role of ‘Daughter’ (Motion Capture Performance)
Artist
Pearlyn Lii
Directors
Pearlyn Lii
Alex Darby
Greg Truono
Prashast Thapan
Team
Alex Darby (Producer and Executive Producer), The Hybrid Studio (Production & Post-Production), Pariah Interactive (Animation & Production), nonstudio (Production), Greg Truono (Editor), Taüs Jafar (Composer & Sound Design), Mio Ishikawa in role of ‘Mother’ (Motion Capture Performance and Choreography), and Kevin Pajarillaga in role of ‘Daughter’ (Motion Capture Performance)
InfiniteMother_v2.0
Episode 2
Infinite Mother is a series of interactive animated cutscenes that examine the mother wound through odes to ancient mythos within a video-game world. The machinima series imagines a digital haven for collective ancestral healing and revisionist matrilineal histories.
The second episode, InfiniteMother v2.0, unfolds in a verdant hellscape inhabited by a persevering child left to endure the emotional absence of her mother. Set in an underworld grotto modeled after Chinese mountain-water landscapes, the narrative binds an ancient mother (Mother) and a cyborgian daughter (Daughter) to the Fetal Peach—a mirage that mirrors their fractured ideals of care and connection.
At the center of their struggle, the Fetal Peach becomes both relic and reflection, symbolizing the impossible desire for reconciliation. Within this world, Daughter navigates an emotional terrain that moves from duty to frustration, grief, and, finally, a quiet release from the longing for recognition. Mother yearns to return to her youth and the beauty of her childhood home, free from the burden of motherhood. The two engage in an uncomfortable dance around the Fetal Peach–a fruit-like fetus and illusory mirror that reflects their implausible relationship ideals. As they fail to connect, they circle the Fetal Peach endlessly, eventually dissolving into the grotto walls.
Rendered in a dreamlike blend of mythic imagery, InfiniteMother v2.0 blurs the boundaries between memory, fantasy, and ritual. Daughter’s increasingly frenetic gestures evolve into a language of rupture—an embodied syntax of an impossible relationship shaped by inheritance and distance. Drawing from traditions of filial piety, classical Chinese landscape painting, and the visual grammar of video games, Lii constructs a world where inherited ancestral myth and digital memory converge.
