My dreamscape video is designed to encapsulate the sensation of a person’s final moments. Those hazy, dissonant seconds when memory, consciousness, and reality begin to blur together. I wanted the piece to feel melancholic and suspended in time, like drifting through a half-remembered dream. To create this effect, I used clips from my camera roll that rarely see the light of day, but still hold emotional weight. Many of them were filmed in a close, POV-like way, as if the viewer is experiencing my life through their own eyes. These personal fragments serve as anchors to memory, making the video feel intimate and reflective.
Throughout the piece, I overlaid a close-up of my own eye, letting it fade in and out over the footage. This visual choice represents slipping between awareness and dissociation; moments of clarity followed by moments of drifting away. The transitions between clips are intentionally fluid: they merge, dissolve, and bleed into one another, echoing the way thoughts mix during moments of fading consciousness. The audio, too, is softened and distant, helping create an echoey, dreamlike atmosphere. Although the video is only about a minute and a half long, I structured it so that time feels stretched, mirroring how life can feel both fleeting and strangely drawn out.
The piece ends on a fade to white, symbolizing transcendence, release, or the final step away from the physical world. I wanted the ending to feel peaceful rather than abrupt. It’s a gentle ascent rather than a cut-off. Overall, the video is a meditation on memory, identity, and the quiet emotional weight of letting go. It acts almost like a visual eulogy to one’s own life, made up of small, ordinary moments that become meaningful when revisited at the edge of consciousness.
