Festival Shorts

Cricket Feet is a short film relating the activities and movements of a lovely couple in bed with those of a group of crickets in a tank with a lizard. This film in particular is about spirituality, love, death, and reincarnation. “Cricketing” or “cricket feet” is a self-soothing activity many people do to fall asleep or while sleeping, which includes rubbing one’s feet together before drifting off. In relating these movements of the couple in bed with the sounds and noises of the crickets in the cage, I hope to draw parallels between this very human, subconscious behavior with the really animalistic and somewhat gross close-ups of the insects. I also wanted to play with colloquial ideas regarding the sounds crickets make, suggesting a finality to the night of the couple and an ever-present lingering danger shown through the hungry lizard waiting outside of the cricket’s tank. This danger, to humans, is climate change. Cricket Feet offers a spiritual albeit depressing refuge from this danger in the related movement of the people and bugs, suggesting that they may not be much different at all - in what they are now and in what they may become.