STALEMATE
Cinematic plot points and dazzling visual scenes are anchored in a moral and aesthetic register drawn from mid-century European tradition; Stalemate examines the hypnotism of intellectual and erotic deception, and labyrinth of interpersonal relationships under the magnifying glass of lockdown.
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When her intrepid black eyes sunk their blade into his pudding face, a champagne cork popped somewhere. The earth's rotation took a hit, the magnetic poles confused each other. She felt him melt, and he let her feel it.
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It
was like a new religion, where up was down, and left was right; a
religion of excess, people victims of their own evolutionary success.”