A noisy city street gives way to a single figure — loneliness in a crowd, watched over by an all-seeing eye. A sunset over the sea becomes a shot for the phone, the moment of simply being there slipping into filming; even lying beside someone close, the experience is mediated by a screen. Touch turns into a reflection through glass: closeness stays near and out of reach, while the world slides into an imposed virtual reality. The final shot of a child reads as a quiet ache for a carefree childhood that knew the world through play — and for everything we lose on the way forward.
References and the moodboard were gathered in Midjourney, with the theme and prompts worked out using Grok. The frames were generated and selected in Midjourney, animated in Kling and Grok. The edit and atmospheric sound design were put together in CapCut.