Title: Funeral Parade of Past LivesCategory: 3D Animation AIDate: 2023






















Funeral Parade of Past Lives is a film noir.

Drawing inspiration from Buddhism's mantra "Vang Sanh Chu," Funeral Parade navigates the intricate interplay between the lamentation for conceptual demises and the commemoration of romanticized resurrections.

The visual storytelling encompasses a variety of self-trained AI-generated imagery, subsequently animated into motion sequences, alongside 3D-rendered animations and scans of an array of body parts.

The centerpiece of the soundtrack is a newly composed rendition of Angelo Badalamenti’s Laura Palmer’s Theme by me.

In collaboration with: Yuanqing Xie

Advised by: Peter Whincop (MIT) & Allen Sayegh (Harvard GSD)


Tools used: Midjourney/ Runway AI/ Unreal Engine/ Meta Humans/ Cinema 4D/ Ableton Live/ Reaper/ Premiere Pro