touch
16mm. 11:30 min. silent 2023

touch (ing), -(ed): Feel, move, affect, be in contact, tangent to, in relation; injure slightly; slightly crazy

"My window tonight casts light out onto the snow, I cast from my eye a glance, a touchless touch.. Jorie Graham, "To 2040"

We look. we touch, we make connections sometimes, and sometimes we proceed by groping blindly forward.

touch :
BE/longing
12 min. digital video, 2023

I found it interesting and somewhat confusing that "belonging' which, to my mind, means feeling at home, connected, and which suggests a certain intimacy, contains the two, somewhat opposing words, being and longing. And so I consulted the dictionary...

Note re screening: these two works are companion pieces. They may be shown individually; or one after the other; or together simultaneously side by side. One aspect of these works for me was the division of all digital video in one and all 16mm. film in the other with the same starting concept in mind.

touch
Producer/Director/Writer: Barbara Sternberg
Length: 12 minutes
Year of Production: 2022
Country of Production: Canada
Exhibition format: digital video

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