https://youtu.be/wfdEDi26XYQ?si=-46FMaFsqLBTMj4p
There’s something I find really compelling about nighttime. Everything’s both more quiet but more alive, and when the lights are turned on you can really see how the city glows. Subsequently taking walks at night is one of my favorite activities. Going around, observing the people up late, wondering what they’re up to. I think trying to capture my perception in the camera is difficult because there’s so many factors that aren’t exactly replicatable in film, but trying to find a close approximate becomes a journey in itself.
When I was out shooting this film, I became particularly interested with two men walking down the street, pushing a cart loaded up with broken mannequin torsos, picking through the trash for plastic to collect. They didn’t much mind my presence, and so I followed them till they finished for the night. I found this to be a very compelling narrative to interweave between the rest of what I filmed that night, placing these people in the context of where they exist in. As for the music, this is one of my favorite songs and type of music to listen to at times like this. Perhaps it seems overly violent or angry, but I felt any softer music wouldn’t fully remind the viewer of the isolation that exists within spaces like this, at night.