38
Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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22m
Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew | 23 mins | 2021
Vivid interruptions of sound and images fragment the psychic landscape of a 38-year-old woman who becomes obsessed with the social media presence of the young woman who broke up her relationship. The latest entry in Chew and Durand’s ongoing examination of the embodied experience of our hybrid online-IRL existence, "38" mines contemporary life’s nuanced exchanges between longing and looking, voyeurism and the desire to be seen.
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