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
In collaboration with director Juan Germán Estrada, our team at A Good Story Studios created a two-day film shoot that plays with the balance of contrast: saturation versus emptiness, motion versus stillness, presence versus void. Creative direction, lyrics, and vocal performance by me; musical production by Akros Sinclair. Visually, the video navigates through shifting colour palettes: from luminous tones representative of the transient moments of recognition to desaturated greys, articulating inner fragmentation. Digital interventions blur silhouettes and layer compositions to reflect the instability of self-perception. Texture and light might have been used to articulate what words often fail to name, treating each frame more like an emotional landscape than a narrative.
Building a Self from Absence
Valquiria became both mirror and release.
Filming myself as the protagonist meant confronting dissociation directly, transforming an internal void into an external artifact.
I considered the meaning of being both the subject and the observer, through the lens: to design emotion as one would design space.
The creative process unfolded between the poles of exhaustion and revelation; collaboration became a stabilizing device, a reminder that identity can be rebuilt in shared creation.
What began as an expression of isolation was transformed into an act of reconnection (with others, with form, and with myself.)
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