Nihilism never looked so good

As metaphorical visuals meet theological extrapolation, the world is sucked upwards into a lightsink, stretched into gravitational inevitability. 

Transforming some “throwaway Instagram experiments” with older footage, new effects, and a surrealist premise, Paul Trillo’s beautiful and strange Until There Was Nothing is a captivating commentary. Easily read with messages about ecology, psychology, and the afterlife, the Earth, devoid of humans, but not so far removed from their artifice, the film creates a conversation between Alan Watt’s eastern studies and a modern legacy.

The video uses common effects but executes them perfectly, adding shadows, strange sci-fi sound effects, staggering the movement to create a sense of foreground, and creating a vision of strange other-ness that allows for dynamism. Using drone footage, old stock, and Inception-like fisheye lenses turned into tunnels that imitate the end of it all, the acceptance of the last thing that you - or I - will ever see.