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In the shadow of Hollywood, a young woman chasing stardom slips into a dreamlike spiral where reality fractures and fame reveals itself as a haunting, living force.
In the toxic fog of endless sunshine and Hollywood hooligans, Los Angeles has always been the melting pot of society. In a city filled with mental illness, the tone of the photographs depict a dream state of West Hollywood and the undertone of urban decay and of how sinister it can be. She is a complicated person and beautifully tragic, Like LA itself, the occupants of this wasteland invite tragedy into their life to feel like everyone else.
The audience is consensually prompted to gaze into the small, condensed universe of someone experiencing a fascinatingly destructive egomania. Here, they recognize behavior once thought to be beyond eccentric, yet today somehow normalized - perhaps sprouting from a modern culture of self-centered ideology? We witness in this character the downfall of self-idolatry; the frequent cause and occasional side effect of pathological narcissism; self-hatred. The struggle between loving oneself more than anything, while simultaneously desiring perfection, threatens to upend the film's eerie dreamworld. However, a brief brush with self-awareness only serves to solidify the character's self-obsession. An existential crisis half-realized - drowned in the shallow waters of Narcissus' well.
Short film 'SleepWalking' confronts the realization that a relationship is over, from the woman's point of view. We witness her as she presents a diary-style monologue detailing her feelings of resentment, their facade of love, and how the toxic cycle of their relationship can only be broken by its demise. Scenes switch between present, past and future as the characters - both individually and as a couple - display the emotional effects of aching loss and the pain of separation.
A documentary crew discovers a shocking fact that changes the trajectory of Satan's reinvention.
Fey Iron, an amicable traveler, confronts her natural urges when she encounters a lone man in the desert. We follow Fey and her older sister Dylan through a day of their life. They are gentle with plants, animals and each other but in a world where the roles of men and women are reversed, can women really be held at fault for the dark side of their God-given tendencies?
A dancer encounters an unnatural menacing force to the beat of a rockabilly tune. Madness ensues as the surreal and nightmarish event unfolds setting the stage for the question of whats real and whats not. Is it a dream or hallucination?
She wanders the streets of East Los Angeles lost in the city of Angels looking for a sign in the dark but she sees the light. Is it a dream? She is compelled to follow the neon lights, she goes to nothingness. The second release of the on going project of 'The Neon Series' that follows the first short 'Belladonna'.
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