Occitane Lacurie

Particles accumulate under the skin, causing itching and hives that follow the unsuspected lines of unnoticed scratches, minor scrapes, or bumps. Skin writing is an attempt to understand these glyphs that rush to the surface of the skin to project something onto my skin, from the inside out.

Documentary by Occitane Lacurie.

Documentary by Occitane Lacurie.

On two medieval-arty releases, from two streaming giants.

The first time I watched Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad, I was also watching the first season of Lisa Joy & Jonathan Nolan's Westworld. This was also the time I was reading (or rather struggling with) Deleuze's Cinema 2.

This doomscroll documentary explores the relationship between the iPhone screen and director‘s own body. Is this device the postmodern version of the small bathroom mirror used for self-exploration? Or is it much closer, not in front of but inside my body? “Out of my desire to wrest something from the vanity of doomscrolling and regain power over the data I give my phone, without even thinking about it, I've tried to document this field/counter-field that unites us and its strangeness.“

There is a city in the South of Morocco, named Ouarzazate. It's very unlikely that you've been there, however, you've surely seen it before.