About Laviana Faith

As a filmmaker that focuses on our relationship with escapism and its impact on our lives outside of it; my work consists of rose-tinted imagery and fantasy cliches. The Many Little Lives of Laviana Faith is a response to the portrayal of young women in fantasy stories, often tinting my pieces with an eerie underbelly.

Most recently my work is being shown in the Third Time A Charm Exhibition this summer. Amoransia is a nine minute short film, named after a written-word project of the same name by John Koenig from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Following Laviana in an increasingly strange series of events and her connection with a shadowy stranger.

Longing to be desired is a human instinct. The thrill of a chase often idealised in media is explored through tropes of ‘the dream ballet’ and ‘dramatic unmasking’ Comparing connection to passing through a fantastical threshold with a cold, uneventful ending as a means to show the moment of disenchantment when the connection is not what you first thought. Utilizing layered, glowing footage with a blushing colour grading to emphasise how these feelings can be all encompassing.