The Venusian is a Swiss crowdfunding project. Its goal is to fund a drama romance comedy short film directed and written by Eliad Lienhardt. The film is about a young man called Tim, who has developed severe social anxiety when the love of his life left him. He plans on using social dynamics in order to meet people and eventually find love again. Plot Tim has been left by Ella, the love of his life. He has since developed social anxiety that prevents him from meeting new people. In order to get back in the game, he has studied the theory of social dynamics. After countless hours of practice in front of the mirror, Tim goes to a bar to put the theory to the test. Arriving at the bar, Tim quickly establishes what person takes in which role in each respective group. After having identified the female alpha he starts manipulating the room in order to get close to her. However, his attempts are averted by a demon who keeps appearing in form of his ex -fincée. Production Using the indiegogo crowdfunding plattform, the short film project started raising money on 12 October 2016. Background Simply put social dynamics describes the behavior of groups that follows from the interactions of individual group members who are influenced by one another’s behavior. It combines theories from Sociology, Psychology and other disciplines. Pickup artists, sometimes called Venusians, make use of that knowledge in order to meet people.
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