38
Leaving June 30
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22m
Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew • 2021 • United States
Starring Curie Choi, Alicia Novella Vasquez
Vivid interruptions of sound and images fragment the psychic landscape of a thirty-eight-year-old woman who becomes obsessed with the social-media presence of the young woman who broke up her relationship. The latest entry in Daniel Chew and Micaela 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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