Fearing Love - Arash Behzadi

Composer: Arash Behzadi Cinematographer: Mario Gonzalez Diaz Fearing Love in Covid Times As the global pandemic creates ever more distance between us, I began thinking about how my composition Fearing Love has taken on new significance. The natural next step was to produce a video to portray this unanticipated divide and the recognition that along with the alienation, comes the struggle to connect, to come together. My music video reflects these contrasting forces. As the camera floats over an impossibly green terraced rice field, a young girl, then another, walk slowly along the edge of a verdant terrace. The camera then cuts to a child sitting alone in a rocky glade by a waterfall. As he turns to gaze directly at us, he is wearing a mask that covers most of his face. We next encounter a masked woman and man strolling slowly toward each other along the ocean shore as gentle waves break onto the sand. We then observe a masked woman sitting in the jungle-like glade where we first encountered the child who