Fear Is A Cold Star

Fear Is A Cold Star is a short film based off my fourth EP of the same name. The story follows a mannequin awakening to its own body. An awakening that becomes a reckoning that becomes a reclamation. Marks from strangers, solidified silence, threads unfurling… How do you reckon with a body that you’ve never fully felt was yours? The mannequin is imbued with my own experiences of assault, delving into the quiet and messy breaking and mending of it all. And then what happens when you fall into a softness you never thought you'd feel. The film exists in that unraveling: the painful yet beautiful tenderness that follows terror. Fear Is A Cold Star is about a body remembering itself. It is about seeing that love is a blur through stained glass, and answering its call even if the body breaks.

Director, writer, editor & soundtrack: Wytchings (Jenny Trinh) Additional filming: Dylan Mangunay Assistance: Edwin Trinh

The work was first shown as a video installation at Pari from 31.08.25 – 26.10.25 as part of their 'Stain' exhibition, which you can read about here: https://pariari.org/stain It was then selected for SeeThru Film Festival on 21.11.25: https://www.instagram.com/seethrufilmfestival/