
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
1969

Representation Score
Good
1986
Director
Julie Murray
Runtime
10 minutes
Average Rating
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Julie Murray’s experimental film questions power and the way we look at things. Instead of including diverse characters, it breaks down the ways society enforces norms. The film prioritizes unsettling the viewer's comfort over traditional character-focused inclusivity. Using found footage, it looks at how images can be tools of surveillance and control. Overall, the film achieves progressive representation by challenging the structures of representation itself.
Category Breakdown
The film doesn't include explicit LGBTQ+ characters or stories, but its unconventional structure challenges typical heterosexual romance clichés.
By avoiding detailed character development, the film steers clear of reinforcing traditional gender roles. Instead, it focuses on the psychological breakdown of characters.
It's hard to identify specific racial demographics in this found-footage film. The movie comments on how bodies are captured and categorized through photography.
The film challenges Western storytelling traditions by rejecting commercial media consumption. Its anti-institutional and anti-capitalist style critiques the commercial media industry.
The film examines mental instability and nervous breakdowns through repetitive imagery. It risks using psychological distress as a stylistic tool rather than a genuine portrayal of lived experiences.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
FF is around three years' worth of collected footage culled from all sources in a variety of formats, from dumpsters to video. It is put together in such a way as to provide miniature, almost instantaneous fictions, confined and numerous, where meaning can occur between the frames as much as it might in the frame. Overall, the film could be described as a visual assault as well as a reference to the invasive nature of the act of taking photographs and more abstractedly with the problem of image or picture functioning as representation of some or all aspects of an object or thing. While the movements and the pace of the film are structured as to suggest relentlessness and insistence of control, the assembly of images therein serve to illustrate the nervous breakdown of the characters represented as their actions, forced into exact repetitions, lose their original expression and take on a new, more ominous existence.

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