Right: An Experimental Reverse Film By SOMEI Design

Under the name of SOMEI design, the director and motion designer has collaborated with VIVO , among others, for their upcoming new product VIVO NEX. This new phone features a two sides screen both at the front and the back. To capture this bi-dimensionality Somei translated it into the film language as a reverse film that can watched both forward and backward.

A suited astronaut approaches a dark rectangular tower with a golden ring in a misty rocky landscape.
Rear view of an astronaut carrying a round device across dark terrain beneath a pale sky.

The film is an attempt to explore Negative Space or the Parallel Universe as a story about choice. Its title right? marks a question : which is the right choice? and leaves up an alternative message: there is no right or wrong because the future is more than one side. The screen display is represented visually in the metaphorical way of parallel time dimensions of life experience.

A small lone figure approaches a tall dark monolith with a golden ring in a hazy landscape.
Small figures cross a broad stairway between immense gray towers toward a tall central doorway.

Our choices are more than what we believe they hold all the potential of opening more than one side of the future. The reverse mode of the film stands as a unifying effect of these parallel dimensions. Playing with this parallelism is also expressed as the mood of balance between dream reality and motion/gravity. The film has been created with zaoeyo’s art director contribution and with a sophisticated elaboration of characters: the astronaut and the suit man. A promising phone and a reminder to not forget the parallel space of possibilities.

Two suited figures with reflective faces sit beside a train window overlooking tall buildings.
Close-up of a suited figure with a reflective face standing among similar figures between tall buildings.

Design: SOMEI DESIGN

/

NEWSLETTER

Visual Atelier 8 Edit

Selected stories from VA8, in your inbox.

Have a project to share?