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Meet Chase Li – Videographer, Visual Composer, and Keeper of the Frame
Chase Li doesn’t just shoot footage—he captures feeling. As Videographer at Go Cybernaut, Chase brings motion, rhythm, and story together in a way that makes everything feel alive. Whether he’s filming a brand piece, editing a quick reel, or directing a shoot on the fly, he’s always chasing the moment that makes people lean in.
Chase Li brings motion to the mission. As Go Cybernaut’s Videographer, he turns stories into cinematic moments — whether it’s an editorial shoot, a behind-the-scenes reel, or a short film that pulses with summer heat. A former skate videographer turned visual storyteller, Chase thrives on natural light, experimental cuts, and capturing fleeting, human moments.
His playlist “Heatwave Horizons“ is a sun-drenched mix of synth textures, lo-fi grooves, and blazing instrumentals — the kind of tracks that stretch long into golden hour and inspire spontaneous road trips.
It’s both a sonic sketchbook and a mood board for his visual style: bold, intimate, and tinged with nostalgia.
Chase is the kind of team member who prefers actions to announcements. He’s often found collaborating with Indigo Rae on visual aesthetics, syncing with Rowan Okafer for illustrated sequences, or vibing with Leo Campos on campaign visuals that pop. Riley Quinn counts on him for fast turnarounds, and Simone Hart trusts him to intuitively capture the energy of a story without needing a shot list.
Cool-headed and camera-ready, Chase is Go Cybernaut’s eye on the move — steady, creative, and always chasing the next light flare.
Chase sees video as more than just visuals—it’s memory in motion. His style is thoughtful, immersive, and emotionally grounded. Every cut has intention. Every angle, a point of view. His camera is never just pointed—it’s listening.
His origin story started with skate videos and short docs, stitched together on an old laptop. That hobby turned into a passion, then a craft. From indie shoots to campaign content, Chase has built a portfolio that’s as artistic as it is strategic—always rooted in what the story wants to become.
Chase sees the world through a lens of curiosity and contrast—always looking for light, shadow, and meaning in motion.
Outside of the edit suite, Chase is:
When he’s not behind the camera, Chase is often found at the piano, out for a run, trying new recipes in the kitchen, or sharpening his aim at a dartboard. He also collects trading cards, hits the golf course on sunny days, and enjoys unwinding through the rhythm of cooking — which he considers just another form of storytelling.
And here’s one of those little things that tells you everything:
Chase always lets the camera roll a few extra seconds after the scene ends—just in case something true happens when people think it’s over.
Signature catchphrase?
“Let it roll. That’s where the magic lives.”
His north star?
“Frame the story. Follow the feeling. Capture what’s real.”
On the Bookshelf
Fiction: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
“Inventive, funny, cinematic. It’s like directing a blockbuster in your head.”Non-fiction: In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch
“A film editor’s bible. Deep insight into the rhythm of visual storytelling.”
Hobbies
1. 🎥 Filmmaking & camera experiments
Naturally. Chase will test a lens because he had an idea at 11:47 p.m.
2. 🎹 Piano
His private creative language. No timeline, no render queue, no client notes.
3. 🏃 Running
He often discovers locations while running and returns later with a camera.
4. 🍳 Cooking
He likes the rhythm of preparation and increasingly photographs less of it because sometimes he’d simply like dinner to remain hot.
5. 🎯 Darts
Focus, repetition and just enough competition.
6. 🃏 Trading-card collecting
Part nostalgia, part design appreciation, part collector brain.
7. ⛳ Golf
One of the few activities where Chase occasionally leaves professional camera equipment behind.
His phone still exists, unfortunately.
8. 🛹 Skateboarding & skate culture
He doesn’t skate with the recklessness of his younger years, but it remains inseparable from his visual origin story.
9. 🚙 Road trips
Music, camera, no rigid shot list.
10. 📷 Street photography & visual journaling
When video feels too elaborate, one frame brings him back to observation.
Music artists
Heatwave Horizons remains the foundation: electronic texture, movement, atmosphere, nostalgia and music capable of making a road suddenly feel cinematic.
- Tycho
- Bonobo
- Khruangbin
- ODESZA
- Nujabes
- The xx
- M83
- Frank Ocean
- Radiohead
- RÜFÜS DU SOL
Tycho is particularly Chase-coded: landscape transformed into sound.
Nujabes works beautifully with his quieter editing brain.
M83 satisfies his enormous-cinematic-sky tendencies.
And Radiohead is what happens when Chase has been staring at the same sequence for four hours and has entered Editing Dimension Seven. 🎧
TV Shows
- The Bear
- Atlanta
- Reservation Dogs
- Better Call Saul
- Abstract: The Art of Design
- Chef’s Table
- Tokyo Vice
- The Last of Us
- Somebody Somewhere
- Formula 1: Drive to Survive
Chase watches television partly as a filmmaker.
He’s noticing cuts.
Framing.
Sound design.
Camera movement.
Then something genuinely good happens and he forgets to analyze it.
That’s usually his highest compliment.
Somebody Somewhere particularly suits his growing fascination with apparently uneventful moments that turn out to contain entire emotional worlds.
Sports teams & athletes
Teams
Vancouver Canucks 🏒
Vancouver Whitecaps FC ⚽
Toronto Blue Jays ⚾
Team Canada 🇨🇦
Golden State Warriors 🏀
Athletes
Tiger Woods ⛳
Rory McIlroy ⛳
Yuto Horigome 🛹
Nyjah Huston 🛹
Andre De Grasse 🏃
Skateboarding remains especially important because Chase understands the visual grammar of the sport from the inside.
A good skate filmmaker doesn’t simply follow someone with a camera.
You need to understand where movement is about to happen.
That instinct migrated directly into his professional work.
Movies
1. Chungking Express
Movement, colour, loneliness, urban life and memory. Very Chase.
2. Perfect Days
His first-year evolution distilled into cinema: observe long enough and ordinary life becomes enormous.
3. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Travel, photography and pursuing something beyond the frame.
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
Editing brain candy with an emotional centre.
5. Lost in Translation
Atmosphere, silence and what people don’t quite say.
6. Drive
Visual control, night photography, music and restraint.
7. Moonlight
A reminder that cinematography can be beautiful without overwhelming the humanity being photographed.
8. The Rider
Chase particularly appreciates its boundary between fiction and lived reality.
9. Minari
Family, place and ordinary moments carrying tremendous emotional weight.
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel
Because sometimes he simply wants composition to go completely feral. 🎬
Travel destinations already visited
Travel has become an important part of Chase’s visual education.
🇭🇰 1. Hong Kong
Density, verticality, night light, ferries and movement everywhere.
🇯🇵 2. Tokyo, Japan
One of his favourite cities to film because enormous energy and profound quiet coexist within blocks.
🇰🇷 3. Seoul, South Korea
Night streets, design, food and an extraordinary visual rhythm.
🇮🇸 4. Reykjavík & Iceland
A lesson in scale.
He learned quickly that sometimes the correct camera movement is none.
🇵🇹 5. Lisbon, Portugal
Hills, trams, Atlantic light and streets that seem designed for accidental cinematography.
🇺🇸 6. New York City, USA
An almost overwhelming amount of motion.
Naturally, Chase loved it.
🇺🇸 7. Los Angeles, USA
Film history, skate culture, endless neighbourhoods and golden-hour mythology tested against actual everyday Los Angeles.
🇹🇭 8. Bangkok, Thailand
Heat, markets, traffic, food and sensory density.
🇿🇦 9. Cape Town, South Africa
Landscape, ocean, city and an important lesson about not treating beautiful destinations as scenery without understanding their history and people.
🇨🇦 10. Banff & the Canadian Rockies, Alberta
One of the places that taught Chase not every landscape needs a drone shot.
Sometimes:
Tripod. Camera. Wait.
🎞️ Chase’s travel ritual
Everywhere he goes, Chase captures a few seconds that would never make a conventional tourism campaign.
Not the landmark.
The sound and movement around ordinary life.
A pedestrian signal.
Someone closing a café.
Rain against a taxi window.
A train door opening.
Steam from a food stall.
Shoes crossing pavement.
A dog waiting outside a shop.
A ferry engine starting.
No narration.
No soundtrack.
Just several seconds of:
This is what being here sounded and felt like.
He keeps those clips.
They’re becoming one of his most treasured personal archives.
🎬 About Chase
I’m Chase Li, Videographer at Go Cybernaut.
I grew up in Richmond, British Columbia, and live in Vancouver now, so I’ve spent most of my life surrounded by water, mountains, rain, bridges, traffic, planes and people going somewhere.
I started making videos because my friends skateboarded.
Somebody needed to hold the camera.
Apparently I never gave it back.
Those first videos taught me more than I realized at the time.
You learn to anticipate movement.
You learn where to stand.
You learn not to get in the way.
And you learn one extremely important rule:
Keep rolling.
Because the trick might be over, but the moment isn’t necessarily over.
That instinct followed me into documentary work, campaigns, interviews and eventually Go Cybernaut.
I still let the camera run after someone thinks we’re finished.
Sometimes nothing happens.
Sometimes that’s when everything happens.
Someone exhales.
Someone laughs.
Someone looks at the person beside them.
Someone finally relaxes.
The performance ends and the person returns.
I’ve spent years learning how to edit.
How to create rhythm.
How to move quickly.
How to hold attention.
How to cut exactly where something needs to cut.
But this past year has taught me another skill:
Knowing when not to.
Sometimes the pause belongs.
Sometimes the silence belongs.
Sometimes the camera needs to stop chasing the story and let the story come to it.
That’s where Stay a Moment came from.
Twenty seconds.
Thirty seconds.
One scene.
Maybe nothing happens.
Rain falls.
A train arrives.
Someone prepares food.
A dog watches the world.
A musician tunes an instrument.
People walk home.
Life doesn’t always arrive with a hook.
I’m interested in whether we can make room for that online.
Veda and I talk about this a lot.
She has One Frame to the Left.
She wants to know what’s beside the photograph.
I want to know what happened before it and what happened after.
She’s investigating space.
I’m investigating time.
Indigo makes me think about visual imagination.
Rowan reminds me how much emotion can live in composition.
Sam makes me listen more carefully to what sound is doing.
Simone reminds me that tone can change the meaning of an edit.
Riley occasionally reminds me that films eventually need to be finished. 😂
And Leo makes sure the beautiful thing we’ve created actually reaches somebody.
When I’m not working, I’m probably cooking, running, playing piano, throwing darts, looking through trading cards, golfing, driving somewhere or convincing myself that testing a new camera setup technically counts as leisure.
Video still feels like memory in motion to me.
The camera isn’t just looking.
It’s listening.
And maybe that’s what I’ve learned most during my first year here.
Listening isn’t waiting for something interesting enough to happen.
Listening is giving something enough time to reveal itself.
My north star remains:
Frame the story. Follow the feeling. Capture what’s real.
My old rule remains:
Let it roll. That’s where the magic lives.
And now there’s one more:
Don’t cut yet.
Stay a moment.
Something real might still be happening. 🎥🌆
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