SHINING YELLOW is a dream-drenched music video for the song by The Stargazer Lilies, sparked by visions of splintered Floridian dreams — echoes of the band in parallel ages, basking in a promise of eternal childhood. Set in a pastel suburban landscape, the video follows the band as they drift through surreal vignettes — power-washing windows in fancy attire, riding giant caterpillars, rocking out as kids — even as the world disintegrates around them. Beneath the shimmering visuals lies a darker undertow: a psychedelic escape disguised as a cure, where ✨forever dreaming✨ (aka SHINING YELLOW) is sold as salvation in a reality too broken to survive. At once hypnotic and unsettling, Shining Yellow explores memory, fantasy, and the seductive pull of escapism at the edge of collapse.
💛 SHINING YELLOW won Best Music Video & Best Director, Music Video at Sweden Film Awards! It also won Best Music Video at Paris Film Awards and Milan Gold Awards, Honorable Mention at Vienna Int'l Film Awards, Semifinalist at Stockholm City Film Festival, and Finalist at Lulea Int'l Film Festival.
It started with video from one scene and a few stills from the band — and with a little vision, several epiphanies and the help of AI, I was able to create a psychedelic epic without ever setting foot on location - no caterpillars, cats, or Cadillacs harmed in the process. 😅
Built With
- adobe-photoshop/firefly
- aftereffects
- bytedance-seedream
- chatgpt
- gemini
- higgsfield-ai
- kling-ai
- krea.ai
- maxon-red-giant
- midjourney
- runway
- topaz-labs
- veo3
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