The idea of a funeral procession came from conversation with @bjork about paying respects to her mother on the land where Hildur use to pick herbs. Bjork pointed to Kurosawa’s Dreams, the fox wedding scene as reference for the precision of the song & choreography. I began drafting concept art and referencing East Asian scroll paintings of processionals, featuring bodies graphically staged against landscape. And evolved the story to center around the idea of a “mikoshi” or spirit vessel. In this case, the procession carries bjork’s mother’s spirit through a gong to its final resting place. Slide 1: still from Ancestress Slide 2: original concept art by me Slide 3: Kurosawa’s “Dreams” Slide 4: Chinese Qing Dynasty scroll painting Slide 5: mario color palette + mask inspo