skydm

A 5-second tracking shot begins in extreme close-up on a rain-puddled alleyway reflecting jade-green neon, the camera slowly retreating with a drunken tilt to reveal cracked concrete walls weeping moss. As the lens drifts rightward, a pocket watch submerged in oily water dissolves into floating cogs mid-frame, its brass gears warping into a ghost train's smokestack that never fully materializes. The image bleeds at the edges—vignette distortion mimicking developing fluid stains—while the color grade slips from sickly arsenic greens to bruise purples, shadows swallowing the composition until only a trembling water droplet remains, refracting the entire scene upside-down in its curved surface before bursting.