Tyler Pearse

Closeted former football player and homecoming king Benny becomes fast friends with Carmen, a high school outsider on a mission to fit in at all costs. With guidance from Benny's older sister and her campus-legend boyfriend, Benny and Carmen juggle horrible hookups, flavored vodka, and fake IDs.

FEVER explores the feeling of spring pushed to its limits. Messy and brimming with life, bodies collide as desire takes over. Using movement as its primary source of storytelling, FEVER presents something viscerally human. Blurring the line between control and release, what begins as a glimmer of renewal, quickly becomes something more urgent and consuming.

Somewhere between a music-video, a documentary and a fantasy - created with and around a Toronto-based acting-collective called LUSTR.