Dark kNight

2012 original production, recut and structured in 2019. 16-minute-30-second 3D animated loop; Dark kNight,  is Hart's response to Christopher Nolan's 2012 film, "The Dark Knight Rises," depicting the attempt of one of her avatars to break free of the simulated world behind the screen. With "Dark kNight" (spelling intentional), Hart began a personal migration out of the sanctuary cocoon of her earlier automatons. She represents the attempt of this defiant one to break free of the simulated world behind the screen, and describes it as a story about creativity and regeneration. The popular Christopher Nolan "Dark Knight Rises," is a film about escape from imprisonment and the powers that deem who is and isn't to be imprisoned. With the film's two highly independent, physically athletic and defiant female characters, both of whom have escaped their own entrapments, Hart was immediately prompted to envision her own restless, racially-hybrid female avatar trying out various strategies to es