THE KISS

Short Film

(2018)

HD video, stereo sound, 18 mins 6 secs (loop), projector, speakers, dimensions variable.

THE KISS

In the digital age, where every communication is potentially monitored, true secrecy demands a return to the physical. Only the direct, unmediated contact of kissing — a physical act of 'speaking in tongues' — can offer truly private communication.

Bypassing digital channels, French kissing offers a foundation for a secret, intimate language inaccessible to the prying eyes and ears of the algorithm.

The work, The Kiss comprises of both a kissing code

, and a film.

WATCH THE FILM HERE

Featured in The Flat Journal: Read the article here.

THE TYRANNY OF DISTANCE

The Kiss was exhibited as part of The Tyranny Of Distance, curated by Sébastien Pluot and Maud Jacquin in the context of Art By Translation. The show was simultaneously on view at Tin Flats Los Angeles and at ENSBA-TALM in Angers France.

Credits:

Actors: Pierre Lanchantin, Anna Cifani.
Concept: Jasmin Blasco.
Writing: Jasmin Blasco, Sierra Feldner-Shaw.
Camera, Editing, Audio record, Mix: Jeremy Emery.