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Melting Point

Mindy Stricke

5 min. Directed by Mindy Stricke

Curator's Note:

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Description:

Melting Point is a queer, experimental erotic short that captures the heat between two lovers, literally. Shot with a thermal camera, the film records the scene using temperature instead of light, revealing new ways of seeing pleasure, play, and desire.

Director’s statement:

Inspired by my own erotic awakening as I entered into a polyamorous relationship and realized that I’m queer, I’ve been making work exploring how women can connect with our erotic selves through a series of projects called Erospace.

Melting Point shows the dance of the erotic through the female gaze and an unusual lens. Two female lovers come together in sensual and sexual play—only the scene is filmed with a thermal camera, which records temperature instead of light. Purple and black represent cold, while orange, red, and white show heat. The warmth of a hot shower, the extreme cold of ice cubes sliding across skin, and the literal heat of two bodies coming together are transformed into unexpected explosions of color. The resulting experiment allows us to see women’s sexual pleasure differently, and the joy that is possible when we are honest about who we are and what we want.

 

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