Claustrophobia - surreal psychological short film

Directed by Alena Fée Created for the Higgsfield AI Film Contest — https://higgsfield.ai/ “Claustrophobia” by Alena Fée is a surreal psychological short film about a woman trapped inside the architecture of her own fear. The locust in the story symbolizes a tiny, harmless anxiety — one that becomes dangerous only when locked away. The glass jar represents confinement: the place where suppressed fear grows louder, sharper, and more distorted. Her dreams reveal the inner mechanisms of claustrophobia: – object-headed figures embodying digital overload, pressure, and noise – looping patterns of panic – distorted space that closes in as her breath shortens – the absurd dance of expectations she can no longer carry Each nightmare tightens the invisible walls around her, until she reaches a breaking point. But instead of fighting, she chooses to release the fear she kept imprisoned. In freeing the locust, she symbolically steps out of her own psychological “room.” The film ends with the insight: “When I freed the locust from the jar, I walked out of my own.” It is a story about return — a return to breath, clarity, and self.