For Jake & Retrograde

EDARGORTER

A planet in retrograde looks like it's moving backward across the sky. So in this one, everything does.

Real footage only. Every shot played in reverse, nothing generated. Music is a stand in until your mixes are done

What goes backward

Candle smoke folding back into the wick
smoke back into the wick
A burnt note growing back
a burnt note writes itself back
Water gathering back into a balloon
water back into the balloon
Bubbles going back into her mouth underwater
a scream breathed back in
A shattered bottle putting itself back together
glass back into a bottle
Star trails winding back into stars
and the sky winds back

You said atmospheric, real footage, Deftones and A Perfect Circle. Reversed real footage gets you that dreamlike feel without a single AI frame, because everything in it actually happened, just the other way round.

Your two videos