Lichtblick-Kino

You are in bed with the person you love, on a morning in 2030.
The sun shines through the window, sending your brain the signal to start the operating system of your life.
You open your eyes and wake up.

A tourist trip to London. A couple in love. The hastily packed suitcases, the screams of the day before. The wound between them is deepening. However, there is a chance for reconciliation: he is wearing work clothes.

An experimental film made by Colorado artist and filmmaker John Dawson in 2024. This short film is 100% hand made by drawing, painting and scratching directly onto 16mm film stock. It is paint with a pulse, abstraction that moves and comes alive. I am taking an old school technique and trying to do something modern and current with it.

Child hunters look through scope-cam rifles to aim for the heart in a found-footage portrait of love told through YouTube vlogs of relationship breakups and psycho exes.
Cupid’s Fever is part of the anthology “I Went to a Party Alone” in which YouTube vlogs of random daily life are recast as scenes imbued with mythic allusions. When the hard cuts and juxtapositions reveal a landscape of oppressive social control, the vloggers’ mundane normal soon gives way to the surreal. Seemingly innocuous recordings are fraught with foreboding as the vloggers who yearn for freedom, love and self-expression find themselves unable to escape society’s haunting bondage.