12 lives

Music video for the song 12 Lives by Antibes. Set on the fragile threshold between the familiar and the uncanny, the film unfolds as a series of documentary-style portraits of people at the beach. Observed with a candid, almost indifferent gaze, each subject feels real, recognizable — yet subtly misaligned, as if reality itself has shifted just enough to unsettle. Each figure is grounded in plausibility, yet edged toward something grotesque. Their gestures, reactions, and interactions remain deeply human — and precisely for that reason, deeply uncomfortable. What emerges is not fantasy, but a heightened realism where small deviations expose something raw and difficult to ignore. Rather than escaping reality, the film presses into it, bending it inward until its hidden tensions surface. The ordinary becomes strained, the believable becomes strange, and the human reveals itself as something both familiar and quietly disturbing. At its core, the work is an exercise in proximity: how close something can remain to reality while still slipping into distortion — and how, in that narrow space, the grotesque becomes unmistakably, inescapably human.