The Zoo
Music Promo for Funkstörung
Appearing on "Disconnected"
PAL SD, 4:3
1.03 min
2004
Direction, art direction, design, animation: Zeitguised
Music: "The Zoo" by Funkstörung
Zeitguised's interpretation of Funkstörung's "The Zoo" is a lighthearted piece that affirms the ease of synthetic constructions against the heavy, serious notion of established images, including the unquestioned photorealism of the computer graphics industry itself.
It visualises the track's intricate layers of sound, conceived as a lullaby, by combining the glitchy stop-motion style of Alex Rutterford's "Gantz Graf" (Autechre) with photoreal rendering, glowing surfaces and bare polygon errors.
Familiarly dull and generic, the environment of unappreciated places is the perfect backdrop for a vivid zoo of mutating machines. They inhabit a technologically explicit world, part of an ever-evolving stream of becoming, of accidental recombination and distorted proliferation. Their busy self-perpetuation creates gentle monstrosities and monstrous poetry.
Featured on Funkstörung's Isolated triple-media DVD.
