No Objects
2019 · 6m · Canada
Directed by Moïa Jobin-Paré
Genres: experimental
Tones: contemplative, sensual, tender
Photographs are transformed through etching and sound is turned into visible motion in an experimental exploration of touch and tactile perception.
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Photography-into-etching is a neat gimmick, but the film's too reverent about the process—it genuinely believes transformation is enough without the subversion or weirdness that would make this actually *dangerous*.
Jobin-Paré positions herself squarely in the structural-film lineage—the rigor of rendering touch as formal gesture, the fidelity to analog materials—and executes with the kind of considered restraint that demands close looking and rewards it.
The sound-to-motion translation is the hinge the whole piece turns on: that single decision to make audio tactile and visible elevates what could've been a demo of darkroom technique into something genuinely sensory and alive.