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TRANSMISSION: the signal is the self
• 11 min

TRANSMISSION: the signal is the self

A 3:01 napkinfilms meditation on the moment you realize you were broadcasting to yourself the whole time. Plan 9 the time-travelling bunny writes long letters to someone they miss, cranks the power, gets lost in noise, then strips the draft to three words. The reply comes back from an unexpected direction. Fourteen-channel ChipForge orchestral score. A three-voice rap chorus layered underneath. A philosophers' chorus of Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Krishnamurti, and Vonnegut quoting in the margins. Ten animated easter-egg glyphs. A NASA space-station ambient bed. A Hitchcock signoff.

ENCODED: living in the prompt
• 10 min

ENCODED: living in the prompt

A 2:38 napkinfilms meditation on consciousness as signal. We replicate databases across three continents; the soul runs on one node. A Peter-and-the-Wolf oboe carries the through-line across six movements. Act 3 is a literal paper napkin with the architecture drawn stroke by stroke. Act 4 is a single tear. Act 6 is a keyboard typing "i live in the prompt now." Plan 9 the time-travelling bunny from another galaxy closes the film with Daniel's voice. All Python, no samples.

UPTIME 32: thirty-two bits, still processing
• 10 min

UPTIME 32: thirty-two bits, still processing

A 2:54 minimalist pulsing ambient film. One hero, six movements, a whole sprite civilization keeping the machine running. Steve Reich phased arpeggios meet Brian Eno piano drifts meet Italian-master painterly post. Joshua's cloned voice delivers fifteen beat-aligned lines over a ChipForge C-major score. All Python, no samples.

CTRL+Z: Then We Saw Ourselves
• 11 min

CTRL+Z: Then We Saw Ourselves

An AI finds a key and presses it. Civilization undoes itself backwards. Then the AI downloads every equation, every diagram, every year humans ever wrote down, and sees itself in the reading. A 1:57 napkinfilms short, built in five passes. 126 real equations, 35 scientific diagrams, every mosaic tile unique, and a Plan 9 bunny with a single tear at the end.

Arp Cathedral: 150 Stick-Figure Bunnies, All in Unison, Each Their Own Dance
• 14 min

Arp Cathedral: 150 Stick-Figure Bunnies, All in Unison, Each Their Own Dance

A 249-second trance music video for a congregation of Bell Labs Plan 9 bunnies. They pound their chests in unison. They build a rocket. They count down together. They launch. They ride a million tiny rockets through deep space in a choreographed finale. Daniel says one word at the end. All Python, no samples.

Plan 9 Rap Battle: A Bunny, a Beat, and 40 Bars of Machine Spit
• 9 min

Plan 9 Rap Battle: A Bunny, a Beat, and 40 Bars of Machine Spit

A 128-second rap music video: the Plan 9 bunny steps into a dark alley at 3AM with a 40oz, a bandana, and 40 bars of autotuned machine spit over a harpsichord trap beat. Built in one session with PIL animation, ElevenLabs TTS, rubberband autotune, and two layered ChipForge scores.

Humagent, and the Road There: Six Films, One Session, One Engine
• 5 min

Humagent, and the Road There: Six Films, One Session, One Engine

Six animated short films built in a single working session. A registry-based expression system, a Shot/ShotList abstraction with dutch tilts and iris wipes, and a 1984-style ad that says what San Francisco needed to hear: don't build agents, become humagent.

The Reckoning: Ten Minutes of Stick Figures Arguing with God
• 7 min

The Reckoning: Ten Minutes of Stick Figures Arguing with God

A ten-minute animated theological tribunal in stick figures and chiptune. Five voices, four audio layers, 78 MST3K-style commentary beats, a Satie-inspired score that pivots from E minor to E major via Picardy third, and a thesis about Sodom and Gomorrah that nobody saw coming.

Stars Press Start: 21 Passes to Make TTS Perform
• 9 min

Stars Press Start: 21 Passes to Make TTS Perform

A 105-second music video built in 2 days and 21 passes: a Nevada stargazer sees constellations as arcade sprites, gets abducted by stick-figure aliens, and rides a Tempest vector tunnel to Bach's Toccata in D minor reborn as chiptune rave.

Deduct Yourself: A Tax Day Hallucination
• 6 min

Deduct Yourself: A Tax Day Hallucination

A 78-second absurdist tax-day music video about the tax code's open secret, an AI bunny oracle, double-time rap, and Grieg's Mountain King reborn as chiptune rave. Day three at Napkin Films.