An animated music video for Dan Munkus’ Wooden Nickels from his 2021 album The Edge of the High Trace.
3D Modeling and animation, hand drawing, and generative processes.
An animated music video for Dan Munkus’ A Once Lonely Man from his 2021 album The Edge of the High Trace.
3D Modeling and animation, hand drawing, and generative processes.
An animated music video for Dan Munkus’ Eighty-Four Today from his 2021 album The Edge of the High Trace.
Hand drawing and generative processes.
An animated music video for Dan Munkus’ Eighty-Four Today from his 2021 album The Edge of the High Trace.
Generative processes in Max/MSP.
A sound-reactive animated music video for the band Old Robes (Daniel Munkus, Heather Sommerlad, and Rachel Epp) from their 2018 album The Spider and the Spectator on Subtle Soup Records.
Winner, Best Animation:
FEEDBACK EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL, Toronto, Canada; 1/2020.
Official Selection:
ISTANBUL EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL, Istanbul, Turkey; 11/2019.
EXPERIMENTAL GUANAJUATO, Guanajuato, Mexico; 10/2019, 6/2023
EXS FESTIVAL, Novi Sad, Serbia; 8/2019.
UNDER_the_RADAR_2019, Vienna, Austria; 6/2019.
NCCC FILM & ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Sanborn, NY; 5/2019.
BOGOTÁ EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL / CINEAUTOPSIA v.5, Bogotá, Colombia; 2019.
Who is the Soldier Online? A gamer, lost in their own exciting but unreal world? A drone pilot, far removed from the too-real destruction they are causing? A troll, wielding heavy words at a distance? Just a persistent brute, pushing forward despite desperate odds? Or perhaps, quite literally, a dog in heat? (On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog…) It’s this mystery character that I animated, always running, but always fragmenting and re-forming, in a world alternately collapsing and exploding around them. The animation is generative and audio-responsive, meaning that it is not “edited” in a conventional, linear way: rather it is a piece of software that responds to the changes in the music to create an evolving visual narrative. Although you are seeing one recording of the video, in its native form it turns out differently each time it is played, influencing the narrative implications. The look of the piece takes its playful inspiration from motifs in 17th-century Chinese classical painting.