Symbiocene Mythologica
Munky wanted to create a series of Elemental Titans, using live-action as his paint brush, and utilize high-speed cinematography to suspend these larger than life human forms in synthesized moments of interaction with the four elements, Earth, Wind, Water and Fire. So he collaborated once again with legendary choreographer Kitty McNamee and uber-talented cinematographer Daniel Stewart to create a series of portraits that were detailed, emotional, atmospheric and focused on the intimate co-existence of humanity’s beauty and the elemental power of nature.
Symbiocene Mythologica reimagines the ancient gods and goddesses of the human-centered Anthropocene epoch as talismans of the new Symbiocene era of interdependence and eco-homeostasis. Each titan holds a unique facet of the new mythology which surfaces in this critical moment, like cosmonauts in search of some heavenly grail: the suspension of consciousness. In which death is not the terminus.
It is the portal to ascension.
Release Date: Jan 8, 2021
OCEANUS was the primordial Titan god of the great, earth-encircling River Okeanos, font of all of the earth's fresh-water - rivers, wells, springs and rain-clouds.
IRIS travels with the speed of wind from one end of the world to the other and into the depths of the sea and the underworld.
ATLAS was the Titan god who bore the sky aloft. He personified the quality of endurance after he was condemned to carry the heavens upon his shoulders.
SATURN was son of Uranus (sky) and Gaea (earth). He was a god of generation, dissolution, plenty, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal and liberation.
PROMETHEUS was the supreme trickster, and a god of fire. In common belief he developed into a master craftsman, and in this connection he was associated with fire and the creation of mortals.
VOLTURNUS was a god of the Tiber, and may have been the god of all rivers.
NYX was the goddess of the night, one of the primordial gods (protogenoi) who emerged as the dawn of creation. She was a child of Khaos (Chaos, Air), and coupling with Erebos (Darkness) she produced Aither (Aether, Light) and Hemera (Day).
ZEPHYRUS was the god of the west wind. He was also the god of spring.
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