About The Film
Unicorn’s Dilemma is an erotic psychological drama about desire, grief, and the dangerous stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
After a devastating loss, Venus meets Harper — A wordly but hedonistic older woman. Venus is drawn to her, not by pleasure but by the illusion of connection, control, and reinvention.
What begins as a fantasy slowly reveals itself as something more predatory, more intimate, and more destabilizing than she ever imagined.
Set against the backdrop of neon-lit encounters and emotional unraveling, the film explores the tension between vulnerability and manipulation — between the need to be seen and the risk of being consumed.
Unicorn’s Dilemma is a story about longing. About obsession. About what happens when desire becomes a form of delusion.
Director’s Statement
I wanted to explore what it means to seek intimacy in the aftermath of loss.
At its core, Unicorn’s Dilemma is about a woman who is unable to unwilling to grieve. Instead she cases connection in spaces where she can remain emotionally detached while still feeling desired. The “Unicorn
dynamic became a lens through which to explore power, projection, and the quiet violence that can exist within intimacy.
Visually, I was drawn to contrast. Softness and danger. Warmth and isolation. Blue became a language for loneliness. Red for desire, control and transformation. I wanted the film to feel sensual, but also unsettling — like something that pulls you in before it reveals its teeth.
The film is deeply personal to me. It lives in the space between memory and myth, between emotional truth and self-deception.
I’m interested in characters who want to be loved, but don’t yet know how to receive it.
Meet The Director
Sarah Jayne Brown is a Los Angeles-based writer and director whose work explores desire, identity, and the psychological landscapes we construct to survive.
Blending erotic tension with emotional unease, her films center women navigating intimacy, power, and self-deception.
Her debut short film, Unicorn’s Dilemma, is an erotic psychological drama that examines grief through the lens of desire, using bold color and visual contrast to explore the space between longing and illusion.
Drawn to stories that live between vulernability and danger, Sarah Jayne’s work is influenced by filmmakers such as David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick and Sofia Coppola. Her voice is rooted in atmosphere, contradition, and the quiet violence that can exist within intimacy.
She is the founder of Cleo-Gloria Pictures and is currently developing multiple films and telivision projects to expand on her signature themes of obsession, transformation, and emotional truth.
