Skin Writing

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.“

Documentary by Occitane Lacurie.

Documentary by Occitane Lacurie.

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

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.