Blissful as Hell

Short Film. Key Art.

"The story is set in an unnamed cyberpunk Town and centers around Liam, a nonchalant person, dwelling on his unwavering faith and personal humiliations. While walking down the street, he accidentally meets Jean Paul, a semi-justifiably paranoid Great Fire survivor obsessed with the Town which, he claims, is dehumanizing and killing the humans itself. He introduces Liam to the shelter-The Bar with a lot of hooks for every visitor to hang the keys from his own private hell. One of those keys belong to Rikko- a young woman tamed by an empty beer bottle named "Biragochi" and Gurem- a gas station night shift worker, who happen to find themselves in the Bar at the same time. Full of symbolism and ennui, the Town reveals its darkest nooks together with an intense importance and equal absurdity of life for their inhabitants."

Liam and Jean at an eclectic cyberpunk bar.

Key scene to explore the type of crowd and visual stylization of the bar.

In this scene, a Rabbi and Catholic Priest share a meal. The cyberpunk environment and neon lights contrast

with the old classical architecture from the past.

Key scene to explore the type of crowd and visual stylization of the bar.

Old baroque and classical elements can be seen as a reminder of what the place may have been in the past.

As the foreground table avidly reads the book to the left, the fantasy elements within the story come to life

and charge from underneath their table, seen with the faun, wolf, and phoenix.

Liam and Jean walk the colorful city streets, but the colorful environment cannot hide the damaged,suicidal, and jaded mindset of the people who live in this world.