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Cups, Bells

Lauren Lee

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Close-up shots abound in amateur video tutorials and ASMR, as they do in expensive ads and portrayals of nostalgia in movies. The camera floats above and beside hands, sometimes still, sometimes wavering, evoking the hapless gaze of an infant. Here the close-up is a trick, hack, gimmick towards intimacy: both flat and sparkling, romantic and ambient, contrived and documentary. The hands, meanwhile, are nervous and dry and inquisitive.

Lauren Lee
Camera: Bruce Bybee, Lauren Lee
Reader: Eva Tichá
Sound: users of freesound.org

Lauren Lee is a reader, watcher, and friend based in New York, with a practice between writing and film. Her recent book, Best Movies All Time, is a sparse and malleable account of dreaming in video; email laurenlr35@gmail.com for a copy.