38
Micaela Durand & Daniel Chew
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 a series of short films, “38” explores the entanglement of desire, sexuality, race, and class as filtered through the distracted, overloaded, and constantly-documented reality of hypermediation.
Durand and Chew continue to examine the embodied experience of our hybrid online-IRL existence by mining contemporary life’s nuanced exchanges between longing and looking, voyeurism and the desire to be seen. Themes of the invisible infrastructures that not only replicate, but also reinforce and intensify existing cultural bias are foregrounded as an invisible online world that only exists through its impact and implication.