benji sheppard /// @banjofromnowhere
Benji Sheppard, Design Academy Eindhoven 2026 graduate, multimedia designer and storyteller from St. Augustine, Florida, creates work influenced by experiences in the conservative South, religious deconstruction, and class division. He communicates complex experiences through various mediums, from steel to sound, adapting the approach to each project's unique demands.
how to disappear is a 1-minute horror short film, previewing future research on topics of human exceptionalism, fear of death and decay, and the dichotomy between human and nonhuman spaces. Hostility against the power of nature is compared with the terror that comes with loss of control of one’s own functions, as the wanderer progresses through stages of anxiety, grief, and acceptance.