A pandemic fever dream where your Amazon order becomes a séance.
Finding new cinematic language to express the desire for physical contact in our increasingly isolated, mediated, and highly consumer-driven environments, Remote follows the daily routines of a quarantined woman in her sealed-off, ultra-modern apartment, where she falls down a rabbit hole playing an inexplicable interactive game with a community of women from around the world.
Direction
Rottenberg's sculptural art-world sensibility invades narrative space.
Production
The apartment itself: a character, a trap, a glossy womb.
Director
Mahyad Tousi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during actual 2020 lockdowns, the film weaponizes the aesthetics of pandemic life before we'd processed them.
Okpokwasili's performance draws from her own 'Bronx Gothic' solo work about embodied Black female experience—here flattened into screens she must re-inhabit.
US
