How does liberty look? Can it be felt through the way a body moves through space? This is an experimental video that explores the emotional spectrum between liberty and confinement—a visual meditation on what it means to be free versus feeling trapped.
We captured this emotional contrast through deliberate cinematographic choices. Every decision—from location and camera angles to colour palette—was made to transmit this central tension. For moments of freedom, we used wide shots breathing with space, warm light that embraces, and vibrant colours that celebrate life. In contrast, confinement was shot with tight frames that compress space, cold light that isolates, desaturated palettes that drain vitality, and hard shadows that create barriers. The character is caught between two worlds: the expansive, infinite horizon of the mountains and the cold, unyielding confinement of walls.
We explored this dichotomy as a juxtaposition of antagonists. We asked ourselves: What if freedom is actually the absence of freedom? Through visual storytelling, we examined how a character’s presence changes when they are liberated versus when they are restrained. Does their movement become more fluid, or does it carry the weight of invisible chains? By manipulating the environment and the body’s relationship to it, we aimed to provoke a deeper question: What is liberty, and how does its presence or its loss reshape the person within it?
