keep in touch

In the first scene two men stand outside of a car waiting for the air conditioner to cool down the vehicle As one puts on some house music using the cars CD player their silence is broken into a state of indescribable feelings In the second scene shot on Super 8 film a person tries to recount a story as he spins a pen around in his hands As he narrates the story which he cannot fully remember he ponders this unusual amnesia In the third scene also filmed on Super 8 focuses on two pairs of hands cutting each others nails the caring yet sensitive gesture were echoed by the intertitles Improvised with a nonwhite cast featuring queer and asian bodies these fragmented memories uneasy gossip and moments of silence center on one key question When the idea of an individual subject cannot take form how might we reconsider being visible audible or legible