Scene from the film Touch
Scene from the film Touch
Scene from the film Touch

Touch

Direction
Year 
2013
Country
  • United States
Runtime
67min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

A man returns, after fifty years, to Chinatown to care for his dying mother. He is a librarian, a cataloguer and recorder, a gay man, a watcher, an impersonator. He passes his time collecting images - his witnesses and collaborators. Sitting in the dark, we look at them and share his cloak of invisibility, both a benefit and a curse.

TOUCH is an essay narrated from one man's point of view. But it is also fiction, for this man is a made-up person, an amalgam of research, interviews, off-the-record comments, secrets, improbabilities, and free-floating desires. This man, who never tells us his name, returns as both insider and outsider to a neighborhood from which he escaped, as a teenager, as fast as he could. Silver: 'I want to focus on the act - particular, yet open-ended - that entrances my protagonist: an act that we, the audience, share with him. This is the act of watching. Looking. Seeing. What does it mean to look, to watch, to photograph, to film?'

Details

  • Original Title
    Touch
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Shelly Silver
  • Editing
    Shelly Silver, Ed Bowes
  • Sound
    Bill Seery, Mercer Media
  • Runtime
    67 min (46-90 min.)
  • Year
    2013
  • Country
    • United States
  • Format
    • Colour
    • Black & White
  • Production
  • Distribution
      • Electronic Arts Intermix
      • 535 West 22nd Street
      • 10011-1119 New York
      • United States
      • web: http://www.eai.org/
      • tel: (212) 337-0680
      • fax: (212) 337-0679
      • e-mail: info@eai.org
  • Festivals
    • Rotterdam International Film Festival - Spectrum (World Premiere)
    • Cinema du Reel (French Premiere)
  • Awards
    • Prix Patrimoine de l'immatériel / The Intangible Heritage Award by the Ministry of Culture and Communication / Cinéma du Réel
    • Special Mention by the International Competition Jury/Cinéma du Réel

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