CRTNM is an experimental animated short film written and directed by a fellow of the "Disumbrationist school of art" movement, with 25,000+ frames illustrated by an Artificial Intelligence (VQGAN+C+CLIP).

The film depicts a battle - actually, more of a World War, if you will - between cockroaches and nematodes, imaginary cephalopods and arthropods, the occasional crustacean - death and destruction, and growth and rebirth. See fantastical (and perhaps grotesque) never-before-seen creatures (that are still somehow immediately familiar and real) forming factions, forging weapons, merging, (literally, morphing and exchanging body parts in some cases), battling.. oh and a genocide perpetuated against a frisky mantid-like race..

The whole conflict may have been started by some parasitic clowns, but who can say, really?

Some imagery could be interpreted to represent how we are all made from the same stuff, and all return to the same stuff in the end, and about how small changes by degree can be completely imperceptible (as in the Parable of the Boiling Frog), but with enough of them, one thing transforms to another something unexpected entirely, right before your eyes.

You might find a moral lesson about how everyone and everything is grotesque to someone or something else, just as they are also loved and beautiful.

Or.. just watch it and see it on its face, imagery that I wanted realized because I thought it would look cool. Art is subjective, right? Just as are what is beautiful or grotesque. It depends who is doing the looking. I hope you enjoy the film (or at least manage to make it all the way through!)     ;-)