EYEDRESS ' NA-KEL SMITH ' JAY WORTHY
2OLDFORTHIS
directed by medet
CONCEPT
The video is structured as a single night told in three acts, one per artist, moving chronologically from early night to just before dawn. Each artist plays a vampire who is exhausted by what they are.
STORY
NAK-KEL
Night. We open in a vast, empty parking lot at night. The camera is already in motion, gliding through the space as if searching, before revealing Na-Kel's only through his shadow stretching under harsh overhead lights. As the camera circles, fragments appear first: jewelry catching light, hands moving, breath in the cold air. The shadow slowly resolves into Nak,
We cut to a flashback, Nak is thrown out of a club mid-brawl. The cause is never shown, only the aftermath: door open, bouncer's arm, Nak stumbling backward into the street already drunk. We don't need to know what the fight was about; the point is he's already worn down before the night has really started.
Nak is laying on the ground laughing.
Performing his part while smoking.
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He stops at the gas station for a cigarette, the cashier notices the blood and shoots Nak from the shotgun.
He is walking through empty streets.
Cut to the bus stop Nak is lighting the cigarette/blunt and we see few bullet holes in his chest, smoke is coming from them.
Nak sleeps sitting up, cigarette still burning between his fingers.
Jay Worthy
Jay is in a private room at a strip club, getting a dance. He's not performing for camera or anyone else in the room. His eyes are locked on the dancer, watching her the way a predator watches something it's about to feed on. She moves through the performance. he throws money without looking away from her.
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we cut to the car shots, Jay is in the backseat of the car, performing off-camera.
Car is driving through the city, and passes by Nak, then by Eyedress.
cut back to the club. As the section builds, the bills Jay throwing shift almost imperceptibly: clean, then stained, then wet with blood. Nobody reacts. The dance continues as if nothing has changed.
EYEDRESS
The most extreme section, and the emotional center of the video. We open on a tight close-up: Eyedress sitting against a fence, his mouth and chin soaked in blood. As the camera pulls back, we see wooden stakes driven into his own chest, self-inflicted, an act of a man trying to stop himself from being what he is.
The camera continues pulling back to reveal his wife, Elvia, lying across his lap. A bite wound. Beneath them both, a full pool of blood soaking into the ground. This isn't framed as an attack. It's framed as grief. He loves her, he fed on her anyway, and now he's trying to destroy himself for it.
We cut to the details of the scene, with quick intercuts to a scene in black and white where Eyedress is biting Elvia, her pupils getting bigger and etc.
OUTRO
Cut to the club exterior: a paramedic vehicle outside, lights strobing, siren going
Inside: the dancer from Jay's section, now on the floor, covered in blood.
Bus stop. Nak is still asleep, exactly as we left him. He never wakes. Daylight has reached him and his body is dissolving into smoke, vaporizing into the air around him.
Cut to Eyedress's spot by the fence, now empty. Just the blood pool left behind. No bodies
out-of-focus close-up on Boaty, vampire tooth bared, lunging out of frame toward camera.
And cut to black.
the end.