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SOFT TOUCH

Paige Mazurek
USA, 2023
11 min.

An existential bubble bath caught between past, present and daydream, Soft Touch reconsiders how we move through the tunnel of life. The film is both a celebration of and escape from the everyday—set within an unexpected American ritual.

Paige Mazurek explores the surprisingly intimate experience of going to the car wash. The liminal space of an RGB-lit washroom proves to be the perfect place for dissociation, when time dilates and the boundaries of space start becoming unclear; the flicker of the past and memory creeps in through the small cracks in the fabric of time. The present is left behind as we smoothly slide into memory, back to the small habits of our childhood, back to trivial sensations. The meeting of textures and sensory attunements turn Mazurek’s film into a little psychedelic trip inside the self, incited by perhaps the most unexpected and most boring of all the places in the world. After leaving the car wash everything feels intimate and gentle, just like an afterglow. Soft foam, soft touch, soft passage through time. (Emilian Lungu)

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Saturday, 30th of September | 21:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Paige Mazurek

Paige Mazurek is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work is a celebration of the everyday, drawing inspiration from observations within the American landscape and her own personal history. Memory, both individual and collective, is a continuous thread throughout her body of work. In 2011, she earned a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts + Tufts University and in 2019 she earned a graduate certificate in audio storytelling from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at the Maine College of Art. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Watermill Center in New York and at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine. She is originally from Baltimore, Maryland and currently based in Providence, Rhode Island.

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  • DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, CINEMATOGRAPHER, EDITOR: Paige Mazurek
  • SOUND DESIGN: Paige Mazurek, Billy Wirasnik
  • SOUND MIX: Billy Wirasnik
  • PRODUCED BY: Paige Mazurek

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