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t t t touch me

Typing, pressing, striking, swiping—finger movements that are not carried out on the touchscreen of a smartphone, but instead, on naked skin. Raphael Reichl investigates the transformation of perception and communication in the digital era—on analogue film. A haptic visual experience, which makes tangible, the loss of analogue qualities.
Raphael Reichl explores the extent to which the digital penetration of all areas of life causes the transformation of needs, communication and perception. The fact that Reichl registers the gestures of everyday life on analogue film, the touches that seem to have lost of sensuality, is more than a statement: t t t touch me becomes a haptic visual experience that makes the loss of analogue qualities in the digital age tangible in the flesh.
(Written by Michelle Koch, Diagonale 20')

  • Raphael Reichl
    Director
  • Lillith Kraxner
    Key Cast
  • Leonard Prochazka
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 1, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria
  • Shooting Format:
    16 mm (Super-8 Blow Up)
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.37:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Metrokino Kulturhaus
    Vienna
    Austria
    June 24, 2017
    World Premiere
    Screening
  • Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
    Vienna
    Austria
    March 23, 2018
    Screening
  • Echo Park Centre (Two Journeys)
    Los Angeles
    United States
    April 13, 2019
    North American Premiere
    Screening
  • 20 seconds of art (KÖR)
    Vienna
    Austria
    July 1, 2019
    20 seconds of art
  • Diagonale 20’ (Die Unvollendete)
    Graz
    Austria
  • IndieLisboa International Film Festival
    Lisabon
    Portugal
    May 6, 2023
    National Premier
    Special Screening
  • Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
    Oberhausen
    Germany
    May 1, 2023
    National Premiere
    Special Screening
  • Go Short Festival
    Poznan
    Netherlands
    April 8, 2023
    National Premiere
    Special Screening
  • Vienna Shorts
    Vienna
    Austria
    June 3, 2023
    Special Screening
  • Short Waves Festival
    Poznan
    Poland
    November 18, 2023
    National Premiere
    Special Screening
  • Uppsala Kortfilmfestival
    Uppsala
    Sweden
    October 26, 2023
    National Premiere
    Special Screening
Director Biography - Raphael Reichl

RAPHAEL REICHL * 1994 in Klosterneuburg (AT), lives and works in Vienna. Studies: Friedl Kubelka School for Independent Film, Vienna; University of Applied Arts Vienna, Site-Specific Art (Paul Petritsch). Whenever Raphael Reichl chooses to rub shoulders with people’s existential conflicts and their real-life situations he endeavours to question the official narratives and how they seem. He adopts a similarly reflexive approach to his creative media, whether working with analogue film, a sheet of paper or the installation-like implementation of a video work.

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Director Statement

t t t touch me projects choreographies of daily habits in cyberspace that are already indelibly engraved in our minds. These movements have become natural motion sequences mainly used by the thumb and index finger and have built a consciousness beyond the screen. We always use this flat surface first to get in touch, instead of emphasising our abilities of perception, which are about to change essentially.