KONGOMATA (Nuclear Samurai)
Video, 2023
About the artwork
In this story a hunter recalls his fateful expedition to find the kongomata, and recounts a tale of horror. The Kongomata are a mythical pterosaur like creature that lived into the modern age. Hidden in the jungles of Zambia and the Congo.
To approach this story I wanted to set it in the early 20th century, and used the narration to deliver exposition, while using the visuals to share subtle clues that further illustrated the story and the character of the protagonist.
The visuals were crafted in midjourney and dalle-3, and the animations created in pikalabs. The vocals were created in elevenlabs and the music created in suno.
Voice generated in Eleven Labs, Music is generated in Suno by Nuclear Samurai
Audio explanation
Listen to Nuclear Samurai discuss this work.
Nuclear Samurai is an artist with a background in commercial photography, and fine art photography.
He has worked for years as a studio photographer and studied a fine art degree majoring in photography. His work often considers topics such as truth in images, identity and persona in the digital era, and musings on absurdities in the way society is structured.
His visual style is often inspired by a photographic, subtle surrealism, that leans heavily on the cinematic language of film to convey narratives and emotions.