Filmmaker Statement

MK Ultra Violence is a culmination in what I consider all things fascinating and equally horrifying that is embedded in American history (and our collective psyche) of the past 70 years. I've always been a fan of late 1960s American culture, with the explosion of music, cinema, and literature acting as a proverbial "fuck you" to the institutions and establishments of America. Yet, as time passes and history slowly reveals itself to us, things aren't always as they seem. A sense of paranoia and conspiracy seems to be embedded in this period, even down to the celluloid of these films, from the brutal finale of Easy Rider to the distrust of political power in The Parallax View. With this short, I manifested these obsessions of mine and tried to exercise a paranoid political horror film that morphs into a bloody slasher by the very end, and hope to explore this fuse with more films like it in the future.