Niumi Nao Music Video
Directed by Ana Paola Flores Martínez & Juan Germán Estrada Produced by A Good Story Studios. A visual and musical poem about identity, disconnection, and the loss of meaning.
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problem
Niumi Nao is the proejct, and it was born from a deep personal reflection on identity, depersonalization, and the emotional dissonance that arises from not recognizing oneself. The project began as an attempt to translate an internal experience of disconnection into visual and sonic form—an exploration of how perception, isolation, and longing coexist. The challenge was conceptual and emotional: to represent blurred identity, suicidal depersonalization, and self-reconstruction without romanticizing pain. The work needed to be visceral yet contained, abstract yet profoundly human—a balance between artistic catharsis and visual clarity.
solution
Working with director Juan Germán Estrada and the production team at A Good Story Studios, we built a two-day film shoot structured around contrast—between saturation and emptiness, motion and stillness, presence and void. I developed the creative direction, lyrics, and vocal performance, while Akros Sinclair produced the music. Visually, the video explores shifting color palettes: from luminous tones that represent fleeting moments of recognition to desaturated grays that express inner fragmentation. Digital interventions, blurred silhouettes, and layered compositions evoke the instability of self-perception. Every frame was treated as an emotional landscape rather than a narrative, using texture and light to articulate what words often fail to name.
Building a Self from Absence
Valquiria became both mirror and release.
Filming myself as protagonist meant confronting dissociation directly—transforming an internal void into an external artifact.
Through the lens, I explored what it means to be both the subject and the observer: to design emotion as one would design space.
The creative process unfolded between exhaustion and revelation; collaboration became a grounding mechanism, a reminder that identity can be rebuilt in shared creation.
What began as an expression of isolation turned into an act of reconnection—with others, with form, and with myself.
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