HVAC

In a collision of longing, innocence, and danger, a young boy at the threshold of adolescence discovers how desire can destabilize reality and transform identity in an instant.

As an artist, I’m interested in using heightened realism and surreal images to portray the intensity of desire. In HVAC, this intensity is juxtaposed against the familiar textures of rural Midwestern life, transforming the banal into something uncanny. The backdrop, a Victorian-era community playhouse, becomes both a stage and a trap—a cinematic entanglement of performance, repression, and desire.

I'm trying to conjure an experience that feels at once intimate and disquieting; a portrait of queerness in the feverish heartland. A feeling of yearning and panic that echoes beyond the plains, pointing to universal and ephemeral moments where innocence gives way to becoming.