A collaborative video work jointly created through concurrent development of the visual concept by AC-bu and the music production by Creephyp. Packed with enough content to go beyond the length of a music video and amount to a full-length animated feature, it was made with the aim of creating something enjoyable again and again.

Description: I was responsible for planning and directing the opening video for the game app "Hypnosis Mic -Dream Rap Battle-". Developer: Odd No. Inc. Official website: https://hypnosismic-dreamrapbattle.com

Theme: a convenient relationship between a man and a woman. The editing constructs a rhythm sustained by the gaps in sound and the intentions of a man and a woman who never fully align. In addition to BONJIN’s editorial perspective, the video also incorporates collages created by the artist himself.

This video depicts “the quiet afterglow left behind after parting.” Two people who will never cross paths again. Yet only the threads of emotion remain, thinly and unmistakably, stretching across space. The man and woman never appear in the same frame; each simply stands still within their own world. A man smoking in a room, a woman sitting inside a car wrapped in rain. Time does not move, and there are no words, only emotion drifting there. At the core of this work is “repetition.” The phrase “just because,” repeated again and again in the lyrics. In response, the visuals also repeatedly show the same frames and actions. Exhaling smoke, gazing at the rain, a hand tapping the steering wheel. All of these are mental landscapes of characters trapped within an emotional “loop.” In the editing, by repeating the same moments, the work creates a sensation as if time were melting away. Even within the repetition, subtle changes—a slight shift in light, the timing of a breath, the tremble of a gaze—are woven in, quietly conveying to the viewer that emotion is not completely still. The lighting and camera work are also closely linked to the poetic tempo. Soft, diffused light, streetlights reflected in raindrops, shadows wavering in cigarette smoke. Everything expresses “things that are unclear, yet undeniably there.” Liquid is a visual poem that shines a light on the “ambiguity” of emotion and the things that cannot be put into words. Bittersweetness and release, stillness and suffocation—an audiovisual experience where all of these coexist, like being inside a dream. We aimed for an afterglow that gently touches the depths of the viewer’s memories and emotions.