Heads Roll
2025
Personal work featuring clips from an experimental fashion film, exploring a poetic machine visualization.
This project was about developing techniques for arriving at a specific art direction with an eye for a calculative vernacular as our primary guardrail.
Poetry in the Performance
This piece began as a question: how does an algorithm perceive human creativity? Without the anchor of lived experience, can a machine ever grasp the essence of art—or will it remain a mirror, endlessly reflecting without understanding?
Our approach was to embody that tension. Shot as a live-action experiment, the shots unfold as if witnessed by an emerging intelligence—interpreting, mimicking, but never fully comprehending. The result is a visual language caught between glitch and brushstroke, cold precision and painterly longing.
A meditation on the machine’s gaze. A search for the soul in the circuitry.
Process
The fun in this project really came down to how scrappy it was to bring together. The live-action shoot was comprised of just a few of us working from a place of joy—we tossed up some lights and a rough backdrop in our studio and just started rolling.
The looks that came out of it are entirely VFX driven: we brought roto’d plates into CG, relit them and then brought them back into AE, completely making up lighting in post.
It felt like the kind of garage style fun you have in your student days and we all had such a blast bringing these images to life.
Credits
Director, DP, & Post-Production: Luke Parker
Art Director, HMU & Wardrobe: Joyce Chen
Model: Janice Chen
Set Assistant: Kiran D. Kaur