[I Love You Very Much] (2023)

 Experimental Feminist Documentary, Structuralist Cinema, Autotheory Film 

Synopsis 

A loop, a cycle, a syndrome, a commentary… the fantasy of heteronormative romance is deconstructed, reconstructed, and re-looped into a ruthless mosaic that lays bare the dangers that lurk within the merry-go-round of this normative romance syndrome. 

Popular film fragments navigate the dishonesties of the cinematic romance in this experimental feminist documentary. Autotheory takes a mosaiced moving image form. 

Serial killers & their cohorts read segmented love letters from Orson Welles, James Joyce, & Johnny Cash. 

Pornography plays to a despondent song that breaks through the fantasy of these maladaptive rom coms. & the hoax that is compulsory heterosexuality is laid bare. 

The sale of traditional romance as a sleight of hand under male supremacy is unveiled to simply be the normalisation of both a soft & hard form of violence. 

Awards and Screenings:

[SEMI-FINALIST - BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT]

Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film Awards 2025 - Chicago, Illinois, USA

[NOMINEE - BEST HORROR DOCUMENTARY] 

Scream Queen Film Festival 2024 - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

[HONORABLE MENTION - WOMEN IN HORROR]

Happenstance Horror Fest2024 - Salem, Massachusetts, USA

[OFFICIAL SELECTION]

Defy Film Festival 2024 - Nashville, Tennessee, USA

[OFFICIAL SELECTION]

Sydney Underground Film Festival 2023 - Sydney, Australia