About You

About You is a personal travel film shaped around the emotions of my first time in Japan. Set to "About You" by The 1975, the piece was less about documenting a trip and more about preserving a feeling: nostalgia, distance, friendship, wonder, and the quiet ache of knowing a moment is already becoming a memory.

The film was built around small emotional fragments rather than a traditional travel structure. I wanted it to feel like looking back on a dream: familiar, fleeting, and deeply personal.

The footage was captured across Japan, from Mount Fuji and Kyoto's bamboo forests to Tokyo trains, seaside towns, Shinkansen rides with friends, and quiet moments beneath the Tokyo Skytree. Some of the strongest images came from places that felt almost unknown: small streets, bike rentals, train windows, and passing landscapes that carried their own atmosphere.

A night-time shot from the plane window became one of the final emotional anchors of the piece, closing the film with a sense of distance and reflection. The edit leaned heavily into nostalgia, using pacing, music, colour, and memory-like imagery to turn the trip into something more emotional than literal.

The film reached 2.9 million views and 383K likes, becoming one of my most widely seen personal projects.

Beyond the numbers, the response showed me the power of digital creation in a way I had never experienced before. One of the shots I captured in Onomichi, outside a bike rental shop, was later recreated in Blender by another artist as part of their own work. Seeing a real place I had been, and a frame I had captured, reimagined digitally by someone else felt surreal.

It showed me that a personal film could travel far beyond its original context. A moment I captured for myself had inspired someone else to create, reinterpret, and build from it. That project became a reminder of why I make things: not just to document where I have been, but to create images that stay with people long after they have scrolled past.