The shadows of carp streamers filmed live-action were turned into animation using rotoscoping. Each frame was drawn by hand on 100 sheets of tracing paper, stacked three layers at a time, and stop-motion shot with DragonFrame.

Commentary: Before COVID, even a few years earlier, around the time when people had become nervously hypersensitive in times of emergency, there was already a sense of suffocation, as if only things that were useful or meaningful were being demanded, and it felt as though that atmosphere had been cultivated after COVID began. As we were forced to relearn that no one had knowledge of this unknown virus, and that people held different ideas and opinions about how to deal with it, I imagined a sense of futility and of coexisting with various forms of life, drawn from the parallel between having no choice but to barricade ourselves in and the fact that everything is always passing. The track “The FOG” itself is by John Carpenter, but I think it also referenced films such as Fitzcarraldo, Straw Dogs, and The Wages of Fear.

Loop music video for monje's "Coyote." It was created using hand-drawn animation made with analog techniques.

In a room with a large window