The Balloon and the Sea is a film about loneliness and dreams. It is inspired by Hemingway’s «The Old Man and the Sea,» and the phrases spoken by the old man are quotes from the book. The color scheme of the protagonist’s dreams and reveries references Wong Kar-Wai.
To generate images, the author used Midjourney and Gen-2, to generate music and sounds — Suno, and publicly available NASA sounds.