fever dreams II
Fever Dreams is a short experimental video shot entirely with a thermal camera. The female protagonist is restless and overheated moments. She’s tossing in bed, pacing, even reaching into freezers seeking relief. The low-res brightly colored thermal footage captures her body’s literal temperature and also seems to radiate emotional distress.
“I fell in love with the medium’s low resolution and colorful palette.”
The idea for the Fever Dreams series began during a heatwave, when I was also experiencing hot flashes for the first time. As soon as I started experimenting with thermal imaging, I fell in love with the medium’s low resolution and colorful palette.
The visual language of these shorts is stylized, exaggerated, and emotionally charged. The project blends personal experiences of aging and anxiety with broader questions about collective climate unease and embodied perception.
In an era of rising temperatures, the Fever Dreams series asks what objective and subjective truths thermal technologies can help reveal.
Materials: single-channel thermal video
Dimensions: 1920 x 1080 pixels
Duration: 2:46 minutes