Nobody Knows Me Like U Do is an experimental video that portrays a world where identity and image are one in the same, and freedom is attained through glamor, fame, sex, and violence. The piece investigates how images are performed differently in the age of the internet, and how the cumulative effect of our digital lives creates a history of images that participate in our identity. As the boundary between our mediated image and our flesh and blood becomes more permeable, the very notion of ‘who you are’ changes. Though aesthetically rooted in queer culture, contemporary nightlife, and 1980’s nostalgia, the themes mirror larger truths about our culture’s infatuation with pop music and prestige, the eroticization of danger, the power of sex, and the internet as a space of identity performance.

As a continuous assault of moving images fly endlessly towards the viewer, an abstract narrative emerges around a central character who is seen in a constant state of transformation. He embodies hyper-performative states of being, and continuously recreates himself through the manipulation of his image. But as these images digitally deconstruct, and eventually evaporate, the character is reduced to little more than a steady stream of output. If freedom is, in fact, attained, the viewer is left to question the cost of that freedom, and the implications of a culture where the power of the mediated self image will forever alter our notions of identity.