Snik Inkvis

Snik Inkvis (Afrikaans; "Tidy Squid"), an Uplifted Octopus, is a film and Experience Playback auteur.

Inkvis productions typically revolve around angles and assumptions nearly inscrutable to most non-octopus viewers, but also sometimes mobilize to comment strikingly on human attitudes and behaviors. His highly unusual style, which focuses on the octopus perspective, has garnered him lavish critical praise and a devoted art-cinema and synesthia following, if little mainstream success. Described by one exuberant critic as "like if Werner Herzog and Mary Shelley's bastard was raised by an obsessive-compulsive surgeon, possessed by Pink Floyd, and then swallowed by a fucking devilfish with cameras for bowels," Inkvis's films have long evoked extreme reactions.

When asked, Inkvis identifies himself as a squid, rather than as an octopus, and thus he is rare not only as an Uplift filmmaker, but also as a trans-species artist. Inkvis habitually inhabits a unique morph variant based on the Cerean Takko synthmorph