50.000 touches [Excerpt #3]

This video is the third excerpt from the ongoing moving- image project “50,000 TOUCHES” (2022-) on the poetics and politics of love, intimacy and touch in relation to self and other, through the means of (alternative) photography, performance for/with camera, animation. The main ambition and challenge of this work lies upon devoted attentiveness and deep commitment to a slow and long creative process during which the aim is to hand-develop 50,000 frames (only then the project can be considered concluded), using a range of alternative image-making techniques- in and out of the dark room-, such as cyanotype, contact printing, chemograms, chlorophyll printing, anthotypes, and their hybridization. Oscillating between digital and analogue methods, the developed frames are re-assembled and edited to shape an audio-visual journey with a non-linear narrative that unfolds through time.