Volar y Nadar
A personal project in two parts. Volar and Nadar are short mood films built around a simple premise: what does it feel like to fly, and what does it feel like to swim?
On location with talent Agostina Sanso, I conducted and filmed a loose interview — less a formal sit-down, more a directed conversation designed to draw out something genuine. Those responses became the spine of each film.
Starring Agostina Sanso
Production by SUPERMONOLITHIC
Directed by Rick van de Dood
Analogue Aesthetics
The visual language was built around analogue cinema references — Super 8 grain, light leaks, flash transitions, halation and saturation pushed to evoke feeling over documentation. Foreign film yellow subtitles, film titles and graphic treatments brought a cinematic frame to what is otherwise intimate, almost private material.
Produced through Supermonolithic, my boutique photo and video studio in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Horizontal: 16:9 for YouTube and web and Vertical: 9:16 for Instagram Reels and TikTok
Commercial and Social Media Edits
Both films were edited to work horizontally and vertically without losing their essence. The vertical cut wasn't an afterthought — framing, pacing and composition were considered for both formats from the edit stage, so each version holds up as its own thing.
