Drawing heavily on the draconian restrictions of the recent Covid pandemic, Bitterman takes us on a near-future journey where “events” unfold that forbid the face-to-face interaction with others. Instead, everyone interacts in zoom-like encounters, which being innocently enough — how are you, how’s your day going, remember when we … etc. — and soon proved to be very isolating.
Bitterman’s film is broken down into four inter-actions variously titled “Placebo” (featuring Carolyn Michelle Smith and Amen Igbinsoun) “Please Log On” (teaming Liz Fenning with Rupak Ginn), “Touch” (Tiffany Wolff and Samuel Martin Lewis are joined by Alaska Jack) and “R Nought” (with Christopher Curry, Ben Bowen and Megan Gallaher).
As each of these “encounters” play out, the participants seem to become lonely, desperate and … for some, unhinged.
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