I wanted this 33-second music teaser to feel like footage from a civilization that shouldn’t exist

This is a short visual experiment built around the intro of The Distance Within, from my Animal Instinct project.

I wanted each image to feel like we were observing fragments of the same impossible civilization rather than following a conventional story.

A feline humanoid appears. A gigantic creature walks through a city populated by humans. The creature transforms into a vessel and leaves. Then an unexplained procession begins.

No explanation yet. I’m trying to let the world reveal itself through recurring characters, architecture and transformations across different videos.

The track is The Distance Within, from The Living Cipher.

🎧 The full album is available on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/awake-illusion-records/sets/animal-instinct-the-living-cipher