Video Project: Grow
This project got to life with the collaboration of my friend Chiara Nardon and I. Her and I wanted to create a video to the song GROW by FACESOUL and because she’s a dancer we decided to show our vision through movement. This song inspired us so much and her flowing movement together with the editing made the vision come to life. While shooting this video we wanted to create different layers of depth, so we used a projector to create the blue effect on her skin. In post i layered even more versions on top of each other and the entire project came out dreamier that we could have imagined. The photos you see here are screenshots of our video.
This project is an ode to our own lives. The past, the present and the future and everything that Chiara and I feel like we’ve missed by only existing in this world rather than living.
This is the text I wrote when I had the vision to create this video:
“I‘m sleeping. I open my eyes to reality, I get up and I go on with my day. I eat, I use the bathroom, I see my friends and family and I exist. I just exist and nothing else. More and more I notice the feeling of empty nothingness creeping into my daily life. I suffer, I love, I feel pain and I feel joy but in the end I feel nothing at all. Then I feel stuck, I feel like I can’t move even if I freak out and scream and jump around I feel like i‘m in a box. Something happens and something changes. So suddenly, yet so slow it feels like years have gone by. I open my eyes and I see a door, a door in the corner of that box and I realise that door is not locked, it has been right in front of me all along. How have I never noticed this door? All I had to do is look around. Noticing the door, opening it and stepping through it and yet I never paid close attention to the box I was in, the box that made me feel like I was suffocating. I open the Door and my own reality comes rushing towards me on the other side. Pain feels so deep it’s almost ripping me apart, joy feels so full I could explode. I move, I dance, I scream, I sing. I am awake, awake from a deep sleep of unconscious existing. I grow.”
