Simulation of the comforting effect of bodily contact without the necessary, physical presence of another body. The film crosses through the third wall producing the same effects in viewers as a body would: excitement, desire, revulsion and, ultimately, sleep. A performance of desire and saturation.
Also in this combined programme
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Super Smile
Effie Wu always looks straight at the camera during her daily routine. Her constant smile becomes increasingly unnerving for viewers. -
Monologue
The camera focuses on a narcissist’s mouth while he boasts about his success with women and his job while he eats a plate of spaghetti. -
Ego Sumo Version 2
Emilio López-Menchero embodies a Japanese sumo wrestler in an empty ballroom, then mentally and physically battles his own mirror image. -
Living
Frans Zwartjes and his wife restlessly wander around their home. The music, the empty space and the use of an extremely wide-angle lens create an… -
The Footstones in Night Writing
Aldona lost her sight in 1986. This is her daily outing to Gutras Park where she wanders through both past and present. -
Sexy
Kurdwin Ayub observes, imitates and interprets Miley Cyrus’s video We Can’t Stop. Ayub’s desperate posture contrasts with Miley’s self-confidence. -
Two Faces
Hermine Freed caresses and kisses her mirror image in an attempt to reclaim her body in a male-dominated society. -
Get Closer
Collage of scraps of photographs of three children shot in 1989. At the end, the pieces fall into place. Intimate reflection on time’s progression. -
La perle
A girl uses her mobile phone’s camera to transform into the girl in Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. Pixels become digital brushstrokes. -
Jo
Justine Pluvinage heads to New York with just two goals: to film and have sex. The camera serves as a means of meeting new men,… -
Colin Is My Real Name
Reinterpretation of Colin Campbell’s True/False (1972). Nemerofsky Ramsay portrays Campbell affirming and denying personal statements about himself. -
Cela avait commencé par un accident
Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel has a monarch butterfly tattooed on every trip she takes. A record of her body that now boasts 41 butterflies. -
Arid Edge
Bike ride through the rugged Atacama desert in Northern Chile, the driest in the world. Phil Dadson finds calm in the seemingly endless emptiness.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
