Valentines Day Girl (2001)

Trecartin crafts a fantastical narrative about a girl whose obsessive personal utopia is disrupted Trecartins collaborator Lizzie Fitch plays a girl obsessed with Valentines Day Everything in her hyperactive spedup world revolves around Valentines Day red white and pink lovethemed decorations cover every surface heart shapes abound Valentines Day treats are everywhere Her private festivities suddenly go awry as a hoard of Christmasthemed intruders appear and take her hostage in her own apartment Gagged and bound she is forced to watch while her ecstatic but sinister captors stage a frenzied Christmas intervention