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Help Us Finish @parapronoia Short Film, links below!
writer • filmmaker • artist | curious • conscious • creator | activist • advocate • accomplice

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Reality feeling a little… real? Ask your doctor about oxytoSIN™.

Welcome to Reality Replacement Rehabilitation.

Sponsored by Pandemonia Industries.
Because your perception is our priority.

Huge thanks to Marco @mmoliternii and Jonathan @jonathancfernandez for embracing the absurd with me.

#PARAPRONOIA #LucidNightmare #IndieFilm #QueerHorror #DarkComedy

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⚛️🫟🧬 ORIENTATION FOR NEW MUTANTS ☔️🫧💜
If you’ve been wondering what the hell I’ve been making… this is your briefing! Stay tuned to hear a teeny, now not so secret, sample of my song “Come Alive” at the end!

Welcome to PARAPRONOIA: a mutation pandemic, giant cosmic storms, alien hybrids, spirit guides with attitude, wormholes, ketamine psychosis, body horror, hilarious absurdity, music, dancing, and an unexpectedly heartfelt story about addiction, healing, and finding your way back to community.

Totally normal stuff.

In this video, I’m sharing the bigger vision behind the project and where your support is going.

We’re raising $12,500 to finish LUCID NIGHTMARE—the edit, VFX, color, and sound—while laying the creative foundation for the stop-motion and 2.5D animated chapters that follow.

If this strange little universe speaks to you, I’d be so grateful if you’d help us bring it to life.

Help us wake up within the nightmare. Find the Love Within. Make it Come Alive. FUNdraiser link is in the bio!!

Welcome to PARAPRONOIA.

Please follow @parapronoia for all the updates 💜

The background music is the instrumentals from my unreleased track “Come Alive” (sampled at the end), produced by Rush Davis @rushlikeathrill and featuring Rush, Star Amerasu @staramerasu and MAHAWAM @mahawam.exe .

#PARAPRONOIA #LucidNightmare #IndieFilm #addictionrecovery #mentalhealthawareness

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⚡️ASCENSION SYMPTOMS? The Great Central Sun is speaking through the Mystic Medium. An urgent transmission to help us wake up inside the nightmare.

This experimental sequence comes from an early short-form version of LUCID NIGHTMARE, which screened at the Whitney Museum during Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art in December 2024.

Huge thank you to Tonatzin Mondragon @tonatzinmondragon and Carlton Wilborn @carltonwilbornrising for lending their incredible voices to this piece. In the complete narrative version of LUCID NIGHTMARE, they’ll appear fully realized as The Mystic Medium and The Great Central Sun.

I can’t wait for you to meet them.

#WhitneyMuseum #LucidNightmare #ExperimentalFilm #QueerHorror #IndieFilm

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Our fundraiser is live, and today I’m finally sharing one of the funniest and strangest scenes from PARAPRONOIA: LUCID NIGHTMARE.

We’re raising $12,500 to seed the next phase of development and production. Please watch, share, and support through the link in bio.

At the epicenter of the storm in the Free People’s Autonomous Zone, field reporter Sebean Ransom, played with total commitment by @xoxoscarlettletters , opens her live report with: “Well Scott, as you can see, the rain is just pounding us.”

The delivery destroys me every time.

She’s interrupted by a Local Mutant, played hilariously by @shawba , who flirts with her, shouts out their family on live television, declares “I’m alive, motherfuckers!” and holds up a sign reading: WE ARE HERE, HAVE NO FEAR.

By the time we return to Sebean, the storm has completely pummeled her—and she is mutating live on air. Disoriented but still reporting, she leaves us with the perfect conclusion:

“The more we learn, the less we know.”

This is the first time we truly meet the mutants of Parapronoia, and it becomes clear that they aren’t monsters. They are simply changed… hybrid humans adapting to a world that has already transformed them.

Trauma changes us. Love changes us. Survival changes us. We are mutating and evolving all the time. The question isn’t whether we will change, but whether we can recognize ourselves, and each other, inside what we become.

Scarlett and Shawba were incredible troopers, essentially being sprayed with a sprinkler attached to a hose outside our producer @freshcarreras home. I’m grateful for @jonathancfernandez playing the news anchor…whose name is definitely not Scott…which somehow makes Sebean’s perfectly confident opening line even funnier. A huge thank-you to @kenzo.dp behind the camera, @ojalavision for the brilliant special-effects makeup, and @stacia.muse for capturing so much battered whimsy through the costume.

Please donate, share this clip, and send it to someone who loves strange queer cinema.

Help us wake up inside the nightmare. Link in bio.

#Parapronoia #QueerHorror #BodyHorror #DarkComedy #humanilluminationvirus

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These are some of my favorite behind-the-scenes moments from LUCID NIGHTMARE.

It still feels surreal that we began production just three weeks after I was discharged from California Rehabilitation Institute. I was still on crutches, still recovering, and honestly running on adrenaline more than anything else. Every day on set was physically exhausting, but also creatively energizing at the same time. After we wrapped, I think I spent two straight days in bed recovering 😆.

My favorite day was Saturday, when we had almost all of our cast together. The energy was incredible. Watching everyone bring these characters to life and having the chance to direct while giving the actors space to play was one of the most fulfilling experiences I’ve ever had. Thank you @xoxoscarlettletters @carltonwilbornrising @brigiger @jonathancfernandez @tonatzinmondragon @shawba !!!

There was another side to it, too.

This film required me to step back into one of the darkest periods of my life. Recreating the fear, isolation, and hopelessness of my ketamine addiction, and even miming the act of using (don’t worry, it was vitamin D powder)…was emotionally intense. But in many ways, it became an act of transformation. A way of reclaiming those memories and turning them into something that might help someone else feel a little less alone.

We’re now raising funds to finish LUCID NIGHTMARE. Every donation goes directly toward the final visual effects, color grade, and sound mix that will bring this story across the finish line.

If this project speaks to you, or if you’d simply like to support independent filmmaking and recovery stories that don’t often get told, I’d be deeply grateful for your help. Check the link in bio for the GoFundMe page.

Every contribution, no matter the size, makes a real difference. 💜✨☺️

BIG thank you to Stefani Rosini for capturing some of the magic. @stefaniarosinistills_smpsp

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From the bottom of my heart: thank you. 14% funded! 💜
I am so deeply grateful. Because of your support, we’re now able to finish the final picture edit of PARAPRONOIA: Lucid Nightmare, and we’re getting closer every day to completing our goal for the color grade. This project exists because people like you believe in connection, healing, and the power of art to transform pain into something meaningful. Thank you for helping bring this strange mutant dream to life.

If you’d like to help us take the next step, we’re fundraising to complete color grading, sound, and visual effects for Part I: Lucid Nightmare. Every donation and every share gets us closer!

Stay Alive. Make Art. Infect Joy.
Mutation is a team sport. We evolve together. ✨

🙏🏼LINK IN BIO🙏🏼

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Today I turn 35. Three years ago, I was living through addiction and a ketamine-induced psychosis. Two years ago, I was learning how to walk again after paralysis. I’m launching a fundraiser to finish the film that emerged from those experiences.

With original music featuring Star Amerasu, MAHAWAM, Rush Davis, and myself, PARAPRONOIA is a comedic and surreal musical short film about addiction, connection, and the possibility that the universe may be conspiring in our favor. With cosmic spirit guides, alien-human hybrids, mutant news anchors, and improbable miracles, it transforms some of my darkest experiences into a story about healing, belonging, and learning how to come alive.

I started filming it just weeks after leaving the hospital. At the time, I was still using crutches and could only stand for a few minutes at a time. Since then, an incredible community of artists, collaborators, friends, and supporters have helped bring this strange little universe to life.

Now I’m raising the final funds needed to complete post-production on Lucid Nightmare, the first chapter of PARAPRONOIA, and continue building the next chapters: Love Within and Come Alive.

This is the most personal project I’ve ever created, and I’ve never been more driven to bring a vision to life.

If PARAPRONOIA resonates with you, I hope you’ll consider supporting the campaign, sharing it, and joining the Mutant Registry.

Your support helps spread the Human Illumination Virus!!

Because mutation is a team sport.

We all evolve together.

Find me at the Cosmic Culture Club.

Stay Alive. Make Art. Infect Joy.

Link in bio!!

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All the smiles from today’s race @blueheaventrailfest

Falling to sleep to coyotes then waking up to morning announcements from the feathered ones, the 24 hours spent @beautifultogethersanctuary are legendary.

We shared our passion and educated many curious. Looking forward to being part of this new race growing! We hear the next one might be in celebration of the harvest moon (Sept 26) 🤞

We are on the road again headed back to Louisville, Kentucky. If you see us, take a pic, tag us, and get a discount!

#mobilesauna #sauna #coldplunge #culture #wellness

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I take my job v seriously u guys lol 😆

What an insane weekend lol. Two or three years ago, if you told me I’d actually be djing warehouse style raves like this, I would have never believed it. Big ups to @filthiihippii and @wishe.wishe.wishe 💗 thank you for inviting me to be a part of it, to all of the performers and everyone who worked together to make this happen. It was absolutely INCREDIBLE. Vibes brought me back to when I first started raving.

Photo creds: @basil.ios 🙏

#dj #edm #rave #charleston

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the last two years

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Christmas 2025 featuring a quick {and cold 🥶} trip to NYC, snow in Maryland, IOP’s Christmas Eve luminaries, and the rest of our holiday traditions and gatherings! ❄️🎄🎅

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⚫️n҉ e҉ w҉ ҉p҉ⓞo҉ r҉ t҉ a҉ l҉ s⚪️
New years week in the Haze @hazeyaches4u
🎞Polaroid 600

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