

Love is Blind
Director: Selina Dou
Country: USA
Year: 2024
Runtime: 4 min
Language: English
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Status: Completed
Logline
On their anniversary, a young woman becomes convinced her boyfriend has forgotten—until a blaring fire alarm forces them to flee, revealing that something even more unexpected awaits her.
Director Statement
Love is Blind was inspired by a real moment in my life when I mistook a routine fire alarm test for an actual emergency. In those few minutes, everything felt urgent and irreversible. I reacted instinctively—without clarity, without confirmation—driven entirely by fear.
This experience became the emotional starting point of the film. I began to think about how similar mechanisms operate in intimate relationships. We often respond to what we think is happening rather than what is actually true. Silence becomes neglect. Distraction becomes indifference. A delay becomes abandonment. In love, uncertainty can feel like danger.
This film is less about an emergency and more about perception. It asks how often we create emotional crises from incomplete information, and how vulnerability can distort what is otherwise steady and sincere love.
Credit
Writer: Selina Dou
Director: Selina Dou
Editor: Selina Dou
Director of Photography: Eanoh Zhao
Gaffer: Neo Shen
Sound Mixer: Ray Luo
Script Supervisor: Lillian Tiemeyer
Assistant of Camera: Ascha Lee




