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FIRST, NEGATIVE TWO, 38: A Trilogy by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew

FIRST, NEGATIVE TWO, 38: A Trilogy by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew

3 Episodes

What does it mean to grow up, to live, to love, to lust in a perpetually online world, one in which the promise of human connection is both tantalizingly ever-present and seemingly more elusive than ever before? Replete—like the internet itself—with shimmering, illusory surfaces, this sensorially immersive, boldly shot and soundtracked trilogy of thematically linked shorts from New York City–based collaborators Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew takes up the great existential paradox of the social-media age, capturing, with disquieting unease, the ambient alienation of our hyper-connected world.

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FIRST, NEGATIVE TWO, 38: A Trilogy by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew

3 Episodes

  • First
    11:59
    First
    Episode 1

    First

    Episode 1

    Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew • 2019 • United States
    Starring Mae Wangmo, Anne Hanavan, Angel Cruz

    A teenager lives her life, toggling seamlessly between her physical and digital selves. She walks over a bridge at sunrise, follows a stranger through the streets of the city, and meet...

  • Negative Two
    28:13
    Negative Two
    Episode 2

    Negative Two

    Episode 2

    Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew • 2019 • United States
    Starring Eric Lee, Sean Dunn, Matthew Raviotta

    A twentysomething gay man develops a relationship over text messages with a stranger he meets on a dating app. Their exchange becomes increasingly intimate as the protagonist navigate...

  • 38
    22:50
    38
    Episode 3

    38

    Episode 3

    Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew • 2021 • United States
    Starring Curie Choi, Alicia Novella Vasquez

    Vivid interruptions of sound and images fragment the psychic landscape of a thirty-eight-year-old woman who becomes obsessed with the social-media presence of the young woman who broke u...

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