At A Touching Distance - short film

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Project Overview

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At A Touching Distance is a 13-minute short film inviting audiences into a sensory journey that explores the many layers of touch, asking what might become perceptible when we are willing to quietly tend to and feel what is available to be felt. Set within the landscape of Devil’s Dyke, the film follows two women moving through shifting terrain, guided by a tactile soundscape and spoken text that attends closely to sensation. Drawing on Karen Barad’s thinking around quantum entanglement and relationality, the film approaches touch as an ongoing process of becoming-with the world. Wind, earth, sound, movement and bodies are not treated as separate elements, but as interconnected presences that continuously shape and affect one another.

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Combining dance, moving image, sound and spoken text, the work explores touch beyond direct physical contact, considering how presence, memory, movement and environment may generate forms of connection across distance.

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Programming and Accessibility

Suitable for gallery, festival, cinema and installation contexts
Subtitled (English); alternative subtitles may be available on request
Sensory and embodied themes
Minimal spoken word
Q&A, Round Table, Artist Talks or Workshop-based wider activity may be available on request

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Credits:

Director, Camera and Edit: Jo Cork
Concept and Movement Direction: Greta Gauhe in collaboration with Deborah Di Meglio
Performers: Greta Gauhe and Deborah Di Meglio
Sound Design and Score: Bartosz Szafranski
Pinhole Camera: Deborah Di Meglio
Spoken word: Greta Gauhe and Deborah Di Meglio
Costumes: Greta Gauhe
Funding Partner: Midlands4Cities

Created as part of Greta Gauhe's PhD exploring remote approaches to touch at the Centre for
Dance Research, Coventry University.