Fever Dreams is a short experimental video shot entirely using a thermal camera. The work follows a first-person protagonist through a series of restless, overheated moments — tossing in bed, reaching into freezers, seeking relief. The grainy, color-shifting thermal footage captures both the body’s literal temperature and a less visible inner state: insomnia, spiraling thoughts, and the emotional weight of rising heat.

This piece began during a stretch of sleepless nights in a London heatwave, when I was experiencing hot flashes for the first time. As I filmed, I realized I needed to embrace two constraints: the low-resolution nature of current thermographic technology and the absence of sound. Through those limitations, I found myself leaning into a kind of silent film aesthetic — rhythmic, visual, internal. The result is a personal piece that blends my experiences of aging and anxiety with broader questions about collective climate unease and embodied perception.

In an era when thermal imaging is used to surveil, diagnose, and detect, Fever Dreams asks what else this technology can show us. Can it make heat’s force visible — not only as a metric, but as a feeling?