Love/Sick
The juxtaposition of bodily precarity and emotional power.
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Val PhoenixDirector
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Val PhoenixWriter
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Val PhoenixProducer
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Val PhoenixKey Cast
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Runtime:18 minutes
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Completion Date:November 29, 2016
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Production Budget:800 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:16mm/Super 8/digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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FlareLondon
United Kingdom
March 18, 2017 -
Fringe!London
United Kingdom
November 19, 2017 -
Arts in MindLondon
United Kingdom
June 7, 2018
Distribution Information
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self
Val Phoenix has been making films since 2006, working in the no-budget DIY realm. Ranging from music videos to non-linear experimentation, her short films have played at festivals and film nights such as Fringe!, LaDIYfest Berlin, Bildwechsel and Whirlygig Cinema. In 2015 she was the recipient of a retrospective at Wotever DIY Film Festival and she completed Love/Sick as part of the BFI-no.w.here co-production, Queering Love, Queering Hormones. Her most recent film is the DIY queer feminist B-movie Lactasia.
When I applied to Queering Love, Queering Hormones, I stated:
In considering a project for this call-out, I turned to my own condition, my own thoughts on what love means and how one experiences it. I was less interested in the lusty manifestations of love and more in the intangibles of it. In my proposed project, Love/Sick, I want to look at the juxtaposition of bodily precarity and emotional power.... I would like to investigate notions of self-love, self-preservation and emotional attachments to others that are not so bodily focused....
As the project evolved, it changed shape, but I would like to think the end result is still concerned with those themes.