"Stubborn and raw, Heat and Sunlight is a much–too–close–for–comfort look at sexual jealousy, a messy, unattractive emotion....Filmmaker and lead actor Nilsson distills a ninety–minute psychodrama-just the high points from sixteen hellish hours in the life of a photojournalist whose girlfriend has failed to pick him up at the airport. The movie refuses the cosmetic distractions of plot; it's simply situation and character. What it offers the viewer are the thrills, embarrassments, and catharsis of self–recognition. In 1970, Mel Hurley (Nilsson) photographed dying children in Biafra. The experience made his career but left him emotionally traumatized. The possibility that his relationship with the dancer/choreographer Carmen (Consuelo Faust) may be ending reawakens unbearable memories....(Nilsson) finds an abundance of visual correlatives for internal chaos and the horror of being paralyzed between fight and flight....Heat and Sunlight illuminates what Hollywood rules out-of-frame."