Siren
[type]
Artist Visual
[role]
Director, DP, Editor
[year]
2021
[about]
Siren, from Sonic’s EP Keep You Posted, is a dark, color-driven visual exploring vulnerability and emotional intensity. Designed to feel like a beautiful, unsettling dream, the film leans into saturated tones, tight shots, and instinctive handheld camera work to bring Sonic’s inner world to the surface.
I approached the film with a homegrown sensibility: handheld camera/minimal gear to stay close to her energy and an emphasis on instinct over perfection. Every choice — from the saturated color palette to the fluid motion — was meant to echo the questions at the heart of the piece: Are we being drawn in? Are we sinking with her? Are we under her spell?
Siren became less about spectacle and more about emotional texture — about creating a world that feels haunted, alluring, and deeply human.
“I wrote Siren about my anxiety, how it sneaks up and chokes me tightly without a warning in the wee hours of the night. Sleep is supposed to be peaceful, a time for our bodies and minds to rest and recharge but boy does it come when I'm most vulnerable, in a deep slumber. So, often I question if it's real. Of course, it is. It's light and dark, it's fear and doubt. Essentially it's me in a constant battle with myself and it's taken a lot for me to accept that. So I run and run and run and eventually the anxiety outruns me, then we dance and do it all over again in repetition.”
— Sonic