<div>We’re raising <strong>$6,000 - $10,000</strong> to produce Candy From a Stranger which is an experimental music video exploring <strong>desire as an irresistibly sickening force</strong>. Through surreal pop imagery, camp, &amp; body horror, we invite you into a world that subverts the playfully pleasurable into something much more deranged. 
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<div>This project asks something we rarely confront honestly:
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<div>How do we make space for contradiction to exist in our sexuality and relationships? 
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<div>How might we contend with our desire as intoxicated pleasure or poisonous rapture? Can it be both? 
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<div>Modern culture sells desire to us constantly through advertising, social media, music, hookup culture, and beauty standards. We are taught to consume intimacy quickly, compulsively, endlessly. <em>Candy From a Stranger</em> transforms that idea into a <strong>grotesque</strong> candy-colored fantasy where the <strong>incessant search for pleasure</strong> slowly mutates into madness.
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<div>This music video is about <strong>psychological exhaustion</strong> resulting from our modern culture of overconsumption, performative desire, and the pressure to constantly commodify ourselves for validation. 
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<div>Produced by the New Mexican production company, Liminal 77, the project blends:
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<div>Visually, the world begins like a glossy Y2k perfume commercial &amp; slowly collapses into an overstimulated nightmare.
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<div>We’re incredibly excited to collaborate with:
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<div>+ <strong>TILCARA</strong> Local Santa Fe performance artist and songwriter exploring desire and play every which way.
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<div>+ <strong>Vault Studios</strong> An Albuquerque VFX house helping bring the surreal visual world to life!
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<div>+ <strong>Bloom Studios</strong> Their sister music management company supporting emerging artists and independent production xox
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<div>This project is deeply important to us because it showcases what independent artists in New Mexico are capable of creating together. Too often, experimental queer art, femme-led productions, and regional creatives are overlooked in larger industry conversations. We want to prove that bold, cinematic, emotionally challenging work can come from local collaboration and community support.
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<div>Your contributions will directly support:
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<div>production design &amp; set materials LOTS OF CANDY!
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<div>costumes, makeup, and practical effects SO MUCH CANDY!
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<div>lighting &amp; camera equipment NO CANDY HERE!
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<div>VFX and post-production MAKING VIRTUAL CANDY!
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<div>food and support for cast &amp; crew IF CANDY WAS MONEY!
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<div>paying local artists and collaborators whenever possible VERY NECESSARY CANDY!
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<div>This is a femme-made, femme-produced, femme-performed project built through collaboration, experimentation, and community belief.
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<div>By supporting Candy From a Stranger, you’re not just funding a music video! You’re helping support:
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<div>an emerging New Mexican musician
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<div>local Albuquerque production studios
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<div><strong>We want to create something provocative and emotionally honest.</strong>
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<div>You can help us make this real!
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<div>Check out our website! <a href="https://liminal77films.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Liminal 77 Films</a>
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