shifting bodies to fluid fiction

Although in the ecstatic touch of bodies the sensation of where one’s own limbs begin and where the forms of one’s partner end is lost, in cinema a mostly male gaze has established itself, which almost clinically separates what has actually become indistinguishable. You need to see who is where, because this is supposedly how desires and social conditions are communicated. Bodies are cut up cinematically and divided into more or less erotic body parts. Daniela Gutmann unhinges this deadlocked and questionable logic – and in this way, she senses the genuine fluidity of the erotic act. Her approach...