Kiss and Tell

Kiss and Tell, an aerial short and music video is a duality within itself. It is conceived as a love letter to the dream logic and seductive instability of David Lynch's cinematic universe—particularly the haunted theatricality of Club Silencio and the uncanny dualities that permeate Twin Peaks.

The film unfolds over the course of a single reality-warping evening inside our own Los Angeles incarnation of a mysterious nightclub. La Femme and The Gentleman are the only two corporeal presences. The boundaries between observer and observed begin to dissolve. An aerial performance by La Femme anchors the evening, suspended between spectacle and ritual, while the club itself functions as a threshold space where time loosens its grip.

Floating globes appear throughout the film as watchful presences—echoes of spirits, witnesses, or forces beyond comprehension. Like silent custodians of memory and fate, they keep time as time itself begins to behave unpredictably: slowing, accelerating, stretching, and reversing. The night becomes untethered from chronology, existing instead in a state of perpetual anticipation and déjà vu.

The eye-patched figures raise a central question: who is watching whom? The video plays with shifting power dynamics between performer and audience, subject and voyeur. It explores the tension between the traditional masculine gaze and a more elusive feminine control, where seduction, performance, and authorship continually exchange hands.

At its center is Holly Dodson's interpretation of Bryan Ferry's "Kiss and Tell." Her vocal performance transforms the song into something both familiar and uncanny—a glamorous artifact refracted through a dream. The production embraces polished nostalgia while allowing it to slip into surrealism, creating a world where elegance conceals mystery and every gesture feels charged with hidden meaning.

The result is a hypnotic nocturne that celebrates performance as illusion, desire as a form of authorship, and the strange pleasure of surrendering to a reality that cannot be fully trusted.