
About the Project
Daydream is a lifesaver for human. This film takes the inner solitude and disorientation of contemporary urban life as its point of departure. Through symbolic and surreal imagery, it explores how individuals, under the weight of a high-pressure society, turn to addictive substances like tobacco and alcohol—not for indulgence, but in search of escape, comfort, and a fleeting sense of existence. It documents a condition: clarity without meaning, exhaustion without rest. What keeps one going is not purpose, but the drifting haze of a daydream. We are not lost because the road is obscured, but because the road no longer leads anywhere. Cigarettes are no excuse. Alcohol is no cure. (This film does not endorse smoking or drinking.)
A daydream is the refuge humans carve out in the crevices of reality. It is soft, blurred, yet heartbreakingly real. This film begins with the solitude and disorientation at the core of contemporary urban life. Through symbolic and surreal visuals, it attempts to reveal how, in a society driven by relentless speed and suffocating rhythms, individuals gradually slip into a spiritual vacuum—sketching a fragile, illusory world out of smoke and alcohol. In that world, they breathe, reminisce, escape, and dissolve. They seek fleeting comfort, knowing it’s all unreal, yet still refusing to wake. It captures a state difficult to define: being awake without meaning, exhausted yet unable to stop. Life becomes a machine that never powers down, trapping people in an endless cycle. The only thing keeping them moving is inertia—and those drifting daydreams that flicker between the haze of smoke and the blur of intoxication. People are not lost because the path is hidden, but because the path no longer leads anywhere. Cigarettes are not excuses. Alcohol is not a cure. This film does not advocate smoking or drinking. It offers a slice of collapse—a quiet portrait of a generation trying to hold back reality’s sharp edges with dreams, numbing the pain in exchange for a fragile proof of existence.
AI Tools & Workflow
My main tools are Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, Runway, and KlingAI. First, I create a draft sketch and storyboard. I then give the draft to GPT to generate model images that match the actions in the sketch. Afterward, I use Stable Diffusion to generate the specific scene I need, and then style it using MidJourney. For video creation, I use KlingAI or Runway. Color adjustments are done in Photoshop, and editing is done with CapCut.