Faculty of Art
Integrated Media
Daniel Tika
Evil Has Two Eyes
Video
2021
15 years into a city-wide lockdown, caused by the appearance of a mysterious toxic fog, the lives of three men - raised in the isolation of the new world’s suburbia - begin to change as their desire to uncover the truth to their reality drives them out into the fog.
“"Evil Has Two Eyes" is a 20-minute short film I have written, directed and produced. The story is a dystopian drama/thriller that centers on the negative effects of modern tribalism at an individual level. The film explores the aftermath of a world divided—first by a race war, and then by a toxic fog—as tribal forms of collectivism that pre-date the narrative continue to both directly and indirectly turn people against each other out of a blind allegiance to their social group. Ultimately, the film is an allegory for the contemporary socio-political divisions that continue to spread in North America.”