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When I first watched this video I felt that it had more of a relationship to drawing than film. Looking at both Blu and artists like David Ellis it seems that the focus is so strongly on the physical process of creating drawings and painting that they almost defy being filmic. Davis Ellis refers to his works as motion painting. However by putting the work into an animated form and essentially bringing it to life a narrative is created however ambiguous that narrative may be. The video strongly signifies all aspects of change and metamorphosis, does anyone know of an animation that contains no narrative?

I was in an artistic funk and came across this from one of my pro audio friends on Facebook. I was completely blown away and re-inspired. Good art always picks me up and drives me to move on with my own creativity. It helps me cut through the day job and chores, and set aside time and energy to go back to my first love. Wow. MUTO also has a book out and I'm wondering if I could buy it in the U.S. Any suggestions? Borders doesn't have it.
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Its like watching life evolve....that life is a continual creation, That it has no opposite and no matter what happens its all just change....like at death, 'we' just be-come something else.

And yes...what was this person taking? What an amazing imagination!

Life is metamorphosis and this is a super illustration of it!

oh and on another note, i feel like this artist was on shrooms or acid while creating this.

i think the end, starting at about 6:00 is symbolic of what humans are doing to nature, in my opinion. he takes advantage of the 'wings' given to him by nature (wings may symbolize finite resources or perhaps crops such as corn)... he "discovers" them, and then becomes greedy and eats them... and in the process mutates them, and ruins them (these resources) and turns them into something evil (perhaps how humans are taking advantage of corn, and cattle, etc, and are exploiting them... and right now these resources are "making us fat" and we think are helping us.... but we don't realize that by doing this we are only slowly killing ourselves.... we're self destructing. this self destruction can take many forms, and here it seems to take the form of bugs.... who knows how long it will be until we create antibiotic resistant bacteria that kills us because of how we are force feeding corn to cattle, which acidifies their normally pH neutral stomachs, and therefore creates bacteria that are acid resistant (our acidic stomachs are usually our barrier against disease/ harmful bacteria) which they pass onto us when we eat them... or, more obviously, it could symbolize our overuse of finite fossil fuels, which we convert into greenhouse gases, which could also one day kill us) anyway that's what the end reminded me of... how we're exploiting nature... and that will one day end up killing us.

The artists says, "JUST REMEMBER THIS WORD: MUTO", Muto = "I change", in Spanish, it was filmed in Brazil. Fractals, butterfly wings, four/six legged creatures, man like figures recreating themselves.
Metamorphosis = change of structure or shape, particularly, transition from one developmental stage to another, as from larva to adult form.
The artists gave us his interpetation in the title. Art truly is simple and that is the beauty of it.

BLU is Awesome! Watch a cool piece of art. I showed this to my professor in my conceptual art class, and now for our final project we are doing a stop flash animations (inspired by MUTO).

OMG I love this! IT IS SO EXESTENTIAL!!!!

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say its about people's transformation through life. As for how each aspect is represented through metaphor I'm not quite sure, but like the six legged creature that walks from the house to reproduce. possibly family life? Also when the old man eats the paper, could be retirement. Of course it might mean nothing and all just be cool imagery.