Mojo: The Floods

Jeremy Kamal

“Mojo: The Floods” is an animated CGI short film, set in a fictional universe called Mojo. In a world where contemporary urban rituals shape natural systems, the film depicts a speculative ecology where a trap-producer controls an entire watershed through his mixing board.

“Mojo: The Floods” is an animated CGI short film, set in a fictional universe called Mojo. It is the first landscape of an animated trilogy in which 3 landscapes (The Floods, The Fringes, and The Blades) depict a world where rituals of contemporary Black culture shape the environment and its ecosystems.

The film depicts a speculative ecology where a trap producer controls an entire watershed through his mixing board. Vast machines operated by music producers hover over a floodplain landscape, using bass notes from amplified music to vibrate bodies of water.

Cymatic patterns in the water are used to visually mix and master sound. Spillage from the process irrigates the surrounding soil and flora distributed by seed-dropping drones. Through the production of music, a new landscape is transformed and sustained. Mojo: The Floods challenges conventional notions of ecology by depicting an environment in which the production of Trap music is essential to closing its ecological loop.

Project Collaborators

Created by: Jeremy Kamal Music by: Jeremy Kamal & Nate Buttel Graphic Design by: Hannah Gaengler, Jeremy Kamal, and Nate Buttel Supported by: The Alfred P Sloan Foundation & SCI-Arc Fiction and Entertainment