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They don't make films. They make movies.
15 episodes. 15 hours. 1 shift.
A child accused. Everyone left to answer.
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8 min
Composed of densely atmospheric and highly stylized recycled commercial footage of young picture perfect models pleasurably applying personal hygiene and cosmetic products in a quick cut montage of disembodied glistening skins hairs hands and lips juxtaposed against the sensual application of assorted foams lotions waxes and creams these carefully constructed plastic images begin to fade speckle crack distort and burn with the material deterioration of the celluloid itself before being reduced to the stark whiteness and unadulterated purity of an empty projection At once idealized and grotesque the disintegrating images become an integral reflection of the titles double entendre of hide as both an organic surface that inherently decays with time and the deliberate act of concealing its irreversible plasticity
