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Meow Wolf: Origin Story

It was just, like, burningdown some kind of old system and having, like, ahybrid phoenix...

It was just, like, burning
down some kind of old system and having, like, a
hybrid phoenix of what art can be rising
out of the ashes

Full Transcript

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- It was just, like, burning down some kind of old system
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and having, like, a hybrid phoenix of what
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art can be rising out of the ashes.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:16:29
Uploaded
Jun 19, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Meow Wolf

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Movie Summary

A group of artists in Santa Fe, NM become a DIY collective called Meow Wolf. Their immersive, large-scale exhibitions crack open a profitable niche in the arts industry, even as their social mission is challenged by the demands of...
We kinda needed, like, a trashier building - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:05
We kinda needed, like, a trashier building
- How did you find my secret lair? - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:04
- How did you find my secret lair?
[cackling] - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:05
[cackling]
[energetic funk music] - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:08
[energetic funk music]
- [Man] All types of music, you know, like punk - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:07
- [Man] All types of music, you know, like punk
- The space on Hopewell and 2nd Street - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:06
- The space on Hopewell and 2nd Street
Probably 200 extension cords, like, plugged into one another - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:08
Probably 200 extension cords, like, plugged into one another
[explosion booming] - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:12
[explosion booming]
[laughing] - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:25
[laughing]
- We didn't want rules, we didn't want hierarchy, - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:08
- We didn't want rules, we didn't want hierarchy,
We all had to fight for ideas and projects, - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:06
We all had to fight for ideas and projects,
[laughing] - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:12
[laughing]
And a lot of art cannot, and should not. - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:05
And a lot of art cannot, and should not.
- He could see further out, and for someone - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:08
- He could see further out, and for someone
- I really didn't want to have, like directors, - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:07
- I really didn't want to have, like directors,
A lot of, "No, that's just not how it's gonna be." - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:11
A lot of, "No, that's just not how it's gonna...
- I had a really bad relationship with power and control. - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:04
- I had a really bad relationship with power and control.
- He is the person at the meetings will - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:09
- He is the person at the meetings will
- I remember a moment when I went into a Meow Wolf meeting - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:06
- I remember a moment when I went into a Meow Wolf meeting
[eerie tonal music] - Meow Wolf: Origin Story 00:09
[eerie tonal music]