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These cinematic music films and animated shorts are part of an ongoing series of experimental visual storytelling projects. Each piece blends original music, motion design, animation, and narrative structure to explore ideas through sound, movement, and imagery.
Creating these films brings together many disciplines developed over the course of my career. Concept development, story structure, script writing, visual design, color, camera, motion, and sound all come together to form a single unified piece. The result is a series of short cinematic works where design, music, and storytelling operate as one creative language.
WONDERLAND
Cinematic Music Film
WONDERLAND is a cinematic music film set to alternative dance music, blending surreal visuals, rhythmic motion, and dreamlike storytelling into a short-form cinematic experience. This experimental video reimagines a familiar myth as a visual journey driven by atmosphere, scale, and movement rather than dialogue. Inspired by the feeling of falling into an unfamiliar world, WONDERLAND explores chaos, authority, and self-realization through cinematic animation and music-driven pacing.
All visuals and music in this film are original works created and directed by David Winslow. Creative, editing, and composition are fully authored and owned by the artist. Please do not use, reproduce, repost, or remix this content without permission. Music, Lyrics & Animation: David Winslow Song: WONDERLAND. © 2026 ArtGrunt LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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SHINE
Cinematic Music Film
SHINE is a cinematic music film set in New York City, following small robots carrying light. As the city rushes past, they move calmly forward, illuminating the world and the people around them. The story is simple: light spreads. Kindness spreads. Presence matters. Shine your light. Blending original music, animation, and visual storytelling, the film explores how positivity ripples outward, even in the busiest places.
Watch with headphones.
All visuals and music in this film are original works created and directed by David Winslow. Creative, editing, and composition are fully authored and owned by the artist. Please do not use, reproduce, repost, or remix this content without permission. Music, Lyrics & Animation: David Winslow Song: SHINE. © 2026 ArtGrunt LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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FORGED
Cinematic Music Film
FORGED is a cinematic music film about living like a gladiator through endurance, preparation, and the quiet resolve to stand when there is no way back. Told through a dreamlike gladiator journey, the story follows a life shaped by discipline, failure, love, and responsibility. This film is not about violence. It’s about commitment. Created as a visual metaphor for modern life, Forged explores what it means to live with purpose, protect what matters, and walk forward when the gates open.
All visuals and music in this film are original works created and directed by David Winslow. Creative, editing, and composition are fully authored and owned by the artist. Please do not use, reproduce, repost, or remix this content without permission. Music, Lyrics & Animation: David Winslow. Song: FORGED. © 2026 ArtGrunt LLC. All Rights Reserved.
CURIOSITY GLASSES
Cinematic Music Film
CURIOSITY GLASSES is a cinematic music film about how curiosity changes the way we see the world. Set inside a mysterious glasses shop, the story follows ordinary people trying on different lenses and discovering new perspectives, empathy, and confidence. Blending surreal visual storytelling, cinematic animation, and acoustic-driven adult alternative music, the film explores how curiosity opens new paths, softens certainty, and helps us see beyond our own point of view.
Curiosity is free. Today only.
All visuals and music in this film are original works created and directed by David Winslow. Creative, editing, and composition are fully authored and owned by the artist. Please do not use, reproduce, repost, or remix this content without permission. Music, Lyrics & Animation: David Winslow. Song: CURIOSITY GLASSES. © 2026 ArtGrunt LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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WHEN THE CIRCUS COMES
Cinematic Music Film
THE CIRCUS COMES. Music plays. Lights glow. Promises are printed in ink. And people line up willingly to believe. This cinematic music film blends original music, lyrics, sound design, and computer-generated visuals to explore spectacle, power, illusion, and the stories we choose to accept. Set inside a traveling circus at the edge of a town, the film uses symbolic imagery, processions, sideshows, and performances to examine how fear, wonder, and control are packaged as entertainment. It explores themes of illusion, propaganda, spectacle, conformity, exploitation, power structures, and the cost of believing comforting lies. It is not about a time period. It is about a pattern.
All visuals and music in this film are original works created and directed by David Winslow. Creative, editing, and composition are fully authored and owned by the artist. Please do not use, reproduce, repost, or remix this content without permission. Music, Lyrics & Animation: David Winslow Song: WHEN THE CIRCUS COMES. © 2026 ArtGrunt LLC. All Rights Reserved.
CONDUCT THE CURRENT
Cinematic Music Film
CONDUCT THE CURRENT is a warm, sunny adult alternative song with a relaxed acoustic feel, gentle rhythms, and an uplifting mood. Built around flowing visuals and wave-like movement, the piece explores ease, focus, and forward motion without force. The music video leans into light, color, and abstraction rather than literal storytelling, letting sound and motion lead. It’s meant to play while you breathe, think, or simply let the day move past. Acoustic textures, subtle ukulele, and an easygoing groove create a sound that’s happy without being naïve and calm without slowing down. Music for staying present, riding momentum, and letting the noise settle on its own.
All visuals and music in this film are original works created and directed by David Winslow. Creative, editing, and composition are fully authored and owned by the artist. Please do not use, reproduce, repost, or remix this content without permission. Music, Lyrics & Animation: David Winslow. Song: CONDUCT THE CURRENT © 2026 ArtGrunt LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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STUDIO OF DREAMS
Animated Music Film
STUDIO OF DREAMS is an original animated music video exploring the creative process through dreamlike imagery and playful surreal characters. Set inside an imaginative artist’s studio, tiny spirits of inspiration come to life among paintbrushes, canvases, and scattered tools. Through metaphor and motion, the film reflects the inner world of creativity, where ideas are born, doubts wander, and imagination quietly dances in the background. Part of an ongoing series of experimental animated shorts, this piece blends music, motion, and visual storytelling to capture the feeling of being lost in the act of making something new.
All visuals and music in this film are original works created and directed by David Winslow. Creative, editing, and composition are fully authored and owned by the artist. Please do not use, reproduce, repost, or remix this content without permission. Music, Lyrics & Animation: David Winslow. Song: STUDIO OF DREAMS. © 2026 ArtGrunt LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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CHOOSE HAPPINESS
Animated Music Film
CHOOSE HAPPINESS is a light acoustic folk-pop music video about choosing happiness, kindness, and enjoying life as it comes. The song blends warm acoustic folk-pop with breezy guitar and ukulele for a relaxed, feel-good listening experience. Created as an experiment in letting go, this piece leans into simplicity, gentle storytelling, and easy rhythms. It’s about slowing down, noticing small joys, and choosing kindness in everyday moments.
Headphones recommended. Best enjoyed without rushing.
All visuals and music in this film are original works created and directed by David Winslow. Creative, editing, and composition are fully authored and owned by the artist. Please do not use, reproduce, repost, or remix this content without permission. Music, Lyrics & Animation: David Winslow. Song: CHOOSE HAPPINESS. © 2026 ArtGrunt LLC. All Rights Reserved.
GIANT MOA
Documentary Short
The Giant Moa once ruled New Zealand’s forests, a flightless bird as tall as a small giraffe, hunted from above by the Haast’s Eagle and, in the end, by people. This film explores the real world of the Moa: giant lowland species, resilient upland survivors in alpine snow, and the rapid pressures of hunting, habitat loss, and fire that erased them within a few centuries.The journey follows Moa from dense forest valleys to windswept coastal cliffs, through Haast’s Eagle attacks, Māori hunting parties, and the burning of nesting grounds that turned ancient forests into empty grasslands. Along the way we visit fossil footprints, bone-filled dig sites, and the upland Moa, the last of the lineage holding on in the high country.
Creative, editing, animation, and composition are fully authored and owned by the artist. Please do not use, reproduce, repost, or remix this content without permission. © 2026 ArtGrunt LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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THERIZINOSAURUS
Documentary Short
Therizinosaurus is one of the strangest dinosaurs ever discovered, a massive feathered herbivore with enormous scythe-like claws that look pulled from nightmares. In this cinematic prehistoric reconstruction, we explore the real story behind Therizinosaurus, its terrifying appearance, true behavior, and the ecological role it played in the Late Cretaceous world.
This video is part of the Animal Marvels: Extinct Animals Reimagined series, where extinct species are reconstructed with scientific accuracy and cinematic storytelling to explore how these creatures actually lived, not just how they looked.
Creative, editing, animation, and composition are fully authored and owned by the artist. Please do not use, reproduce, repost, or remix this content without permission. © 2026 ArtGrunt LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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