Feel the Fear

In “Feel the Fear” (1990, 24 minutes) images and ideas about television viewing, self-help therapy, alcohol use, acting, mimicry and social responsibility are linked by metaphoric and formal similarities to imitate connections of cause and effect.   But the suggestion of causal logic doesn’t hold up and becomes increasingly skewed.  The film’s structure is a metaphor for the contradictions of the culture in which it was made. Rent the 16mm film or buy it as part of a 3 film DVD collection.

“In Feel the Fear we’re treated to a journey into the brain’s processes for getting looped, sort of like a hip episode of The Infinite Voyage. But alcohol is just the starting point, and for all the endearing campiness of old science films, Filippo makes us continually aware of the darker question sub rosa – who’s controlling all this reality anyway…”
Heather Mackey, Film Critic
San Francisco Bay Guardian

Selected Screenings