Behind the Sun is a collaborative visual project developed with Egyptian DJ and music producer Martina. The work was created as a visual interpretation of her track, translating its sonic identity into a constructed cinematic landscape.
The collaboration unfolded through a series of conversations and shared sessions, allowing the visual direction to emerge organically from the essence of the music itself rather than from a predetermined aesthetic.
The track carried both political and artistic undertones, which informed the conceptual framework of the visual piece. Instead of illustrating the music literally, the goal was to create a surreal environment a layered scene where symbolic elements subtly reference social and cultural tensions.
The visual language operates metaphorically. Objects and spatial compositions function as coded signals, reflecting multiplicity, distortion, and fragmentation within contemporary reality.
What most influenced the visual production was the complexity of the sound design. The track is built upon interwoven layers of overlapping audio textures multiple voices emerging, colliding, and dissolving into one another.
This sonic multiplicity directly shaped the visual rhythm. The imagery flows with a sense of fluidity, responding to the density and expansion of the sound. Rather than overpowering the music, the visual composition moves in dialogue with it allowing the atmosphere to unfold seamlessly.
Behind the Sun exists as a fusion of sound and image a surreal audiovisual construction where political nuance, emotional texture, and sonic complexity converge into a unified visual experience.
