This senior feature project is a short experimental mini documentary that examines the formation and impact of parasocial relationships, and what it means to be perceived through a digital lens. The film is structured around a single interview with myself, using voiceover as the primary narrative thread while the visual track shifts between layered realities. It begins with real audience comments as an entry point into perception, then transitions into a visual “mind space” representing moments of internal escape and processing. From there, the film moves through fragmented jump cuts of hospital imagery and lived experience, before returning to my introduction and interview.

As the voiceover continues, the visuals shift between everyday life content, archival footage from periods of illness, and present-day moments, creating a nonlinear reflection of identity as it is constructed both privately and publicly. The editing style—through jump cuts, layering, and contrast between voice and image—mirrors the instability and fragmentation of being simultaneously known and unknown online. This project explores how parasocial relationships are built, how they distort or shape perception, and how lived experience exists beneath the version of a person consumed through media.