Cauchemar: Spectral Shapes on Infrared
Sci-fi Music Video Parable, Collaboration With Holy Similaun, DJ YTP, Seraphim, and Ronce
Presented at PAF 2023
A sci-fi parable unfolding as both a music video and a nightmare, Cauchemar follows an exploration probe launched into a vast, Zone-like megastructure—architecture woven by its own exiled inhabitants. The probe becomes the film’s central figure, drifting through derelict immensities and attempting to seize the restless images they emit.
In this volatile terrain, vision itself mutates, and the act of optical capture teeters between comprehension and erasure. What emerges is a chimeric meditation on the epistemological ambition to comprehend the world—an ambition haunted by the impossibility of controlling the very knowledge structures we create.
The collaboration with Holy Similaun, Seraphim, DJ YTP, and Ronce was highly iterative: after receiving the initial rough composition from the musicians, I broke it down into structural anchors that could guide the pacing of the imagery. Using generative 3D systems, I built evolving environments that responded directly to the sound, layering in audio-reactive elements that pulsed, fractured, and swarmed in sync. This approach turned the video into more than an accompaniment—it became a probe itself, struggling to register an overwhelming torrent of signals, where the line between noise and meaning constantly disintegrated.
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