"The Feed" is about a social media monster who I sometimes call Facetime. He eats likes (hearts) and other social media engagement to survive. I don't have all the shots here but he grows hearts and likes in a garden, picks them, cooks them, has a fridge full of them. He's also very lonely and depressed, because what he eats isn't actually sustaining or satisfying. He's like a hungry ghost or any classic monster: edward scissorhands, the hunchback, king kong. I could see a story where Koser finds him in his solitude, in his lair, and she takes him out into the world to show him he doesn't have to stay in his cave, that he can have real human connection and engagement that is far more fulfilling than his usual diet. I really don't have the story for this one it's more a character we could develop and find a story for. I see so many ways it could go.
Anxiety is a monster and he lives somewhere in Koser's house. She tries to fall asleep but red yarn pulls her possessions out of her bedroom. Red yarn attaches itself to Koser and pulls her out of her bedroom and down the hall. She discovers a room where all her belongings are hanging from the ceiling from a giant network of red spiderwebs. Anxiety is doing tests on Koser's lipstick, her keys, her childhood toys. When Anxiety starts analyzing her phone she is petrified. Cork boards and computer screens show some the confusing and paranoid project Anxiety is doing about Koser. She tries to escape but more red yarn surrounds her until she is is tied to a chair. Overwhelmed, she dives into the yarn as if it is a pool. She hides under he yarn, watching Anxiety continue to do strange tests and experiments on her belongings, on her life. In the end he gives her back her phone and she stares at it as if none of it ever happened, happy to have her pacifier back in her hands.
Keanu is depressed. He won't get off the couch. In fact, he hides inside it. His good friend, Mr. Incredible, breaks into his hideout and tries everything to free him but Keanu won't get off the couch. So Mr. Incredible pushes the couch outside and takes Keanu on a tour of what he's missing out on. Keanu stays depressed but he does smile at the end. Maybe in the end he even stands up off the couch and walks away.
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It's a little confusing because Keanu is played by a few different people in the beginning, including a woman but there are only two characters: the depressed person on the couch and the person who loves them and is trying to get them up and out.