Perfect Heat
2005, 11:03min.

Perfect Heat is a surreal, sci-fi short film about anxiety. A mysterious female doctor subjects a patient to experimental drawing therapies. The experiments begin in the anti-septic, white interior of a laboratory, followed by frenzied and color saturated flashbacks into the patient's mind, and finally the doctor and patient are conducting a seemingly banal interview on a neutral talk show stage. The response to panic generates different worlds in the patient's mind and it is unclear which is 'real'. The doctor and patient are connected in different roles across these realities as lovers, torturers and professionals. We are left with the patient's reflection on the nature of his anxiety and inner worlds.

Program 22 : 18 Mar 2006

MISKA DRASKOCZY (USA)

http://www.perfectheatfilm.com/

Miska Draskoczy was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1975 and grew up in rural Pennsylvania. After studying architecture at the University of California, Berkeley he graduated from Tufts University/Museum School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1998. While working as a graphic designer in New York City in early 1999, Miska created the media ruse NATOarts, a conceptual arts organization purporting to be funded by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATOarts presented its first exhibition, "NATOarts: A Retrospective" in September 2000 in New York City and in the Spring of 2001, the federal government of Switzerland brought "NATOarts: A Retrospective" to Forde Espace d' Art Contemporain in Geneva, where it was exhibited for an eight-week run.

Now focusing on film and animation projects, Miska's "Golf Xpress", a short film about a psychotic golf pro, was screened at festivals worldwide and won Best of Festival and Best Experimental at the 2003 Denver Underground Film Festival. His latest short, "Perfect Heat", is a surreal sci-fi film about anxiety. In addition to his artistic activities, Miska founded and runs the production company snow23 where he directs and animates commercial spots and music videos for clients such as IBM, Lifetime, MTV, Tiffany, Canon, and others. He lives and works in New York City.