To create this dark homage to desire for Bob Moses, I invented a new style of animation, as well as a new format for interactive experiences. We created a film that lets viewers see the positive side and dark side of desire: desire as a source of pleasure, or pain.

I made it by creating two music videos that when overlaid, form a third. The first is a story, animated in all blue, that shows one character's perspective in a relationship. The second is a story, animated in all red, that shows the other character's perspective.

Through the interlocking system we developed, the two animations line up beautifully when overlaid to show the couple together. But when a layer is removed, it reveals the secret ways the characters are experiencing desire differently in their relationship, often as a source of pain. In one scene a character's face looks normal at first, but when a layer's removed, tears appear. We wanted to show that desire can lead to downfall, which is why the couple is literally falling.

Through this, the video takes viewers on a journey of discovery to find the hidden love and darkness in their relationship. In the interactive version below, viewers can shift between the worlds of pleasure and pain with the click of a button. By jumping between the red and blue animations, a beating heart burst into flames, lipstick turns into a bullet and joy becomes despair. Interactive videos with multiple stories have been created before, but ours is the first where multiple stories can be viewed simultaneously through interlocking animations.