No One Cried
2021 | 23 minutes | 1.78:1 | Colour | 5.1 surround sound | English spoken | Netherlands, Germany
Synopsis
From plain white walls to bombastically crafted backdrops, adult chat rooms are portals to people's phantasy worlds. Focusing on the moments when performers are off-screen, a meticulous concatenation of ghostly spaces takes us on an unsettling journey of self-expression and lonesome desire. The growing discomfort with what has happened or is about to happen in these empty rooms is interspersed with fragments of interviews with "camgirls" and "camboys" delving into the psychological repercussions of this digital type of sex work.
Credits
directed and edited by Daniel Jacoby
with: smokingfoool, ophelia, ali_red, silviajpn
music: Charlie Usher
audio mix: Edgars Rubenis
Screenings
- 06/2021 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL
- 08/2021 Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow RU
- 09/2021 Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine, Lima PE
- 09/2021 Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik IS
- 11/2021 Impakt Festival curated by Katerina Gregos en Arjon Dunnewind, Utrecht NL
- 11/2021 Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing CN
- 05/2022 Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen DE
- 09/2022 25FPS Festival, Zagreb HR
- 11/2022 Arkipel, Jakarta ID
- 11/2022 e-flux Screening Room, New York US
With the support of
Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam NL
Mediafonds, Amsterdam NL
Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg DE
Press
"Obviously, we live on screens": how streams and online chat become films, BFI Sight&Sound (on No One Cried's work-in-progress version With the Expression of an Egg)