Fever

Nick is 28 years old and has failed in his struggle to support himself as an artist. He lives in the outskirts of Brooklyn, lacking even a telephone. One night the Polish landlord gets killed in his apartment. Both the building and its residents are in a pitiful state and the situation deteriorates for Nick. He gets fired from his art teaching job and his neighbour Will is acting oddly. Alex Winter wanted to make a serious film about a person in an age that usually is dismissed as superficial. He closely portrays Nick's gradual breakdown mixing the actual course of events with hallucinations and dreams. The base to this dark tale is the conflict between Nick and Will, or between the idealist and the cynic. The conflict expands and Nick is pulled in to the landlord's murder. At the same time he loses his security and gets weaker, both in body and in mind. His sister, who works in a gallery in the city, tries to make him pull himself together but instead we see the imminent breakdown. The perspective in the film are Nick's eyes and it is through them that we follow the course of events. The imagery and settings are suited to belong to Nick's world. We see a New York we are unaccustomed to, in small pictures and almost colourless settings. In contrast to many other films Fever has a thorough imagery that is significant to the structure of the story.

Medverkande
Henry Thomas, David O'Hara, Teri Hatcher, Bill Duke: Producent
Christian Martin: Manus
Alex Winter: Foto
Joe Desalvo: Musik
Joe Delia: Talat språk
English