double bill #29

Across all works of art, there seems to be one common denominator, as if every song, film, or poem can be boiled down to one simple word: love. Both Felipe Casanova in Loveboard and Martí Madaula Esquirol in The Living Wardrobe present this in a new light, exploring intimacy as something mediated rather than directly expressed. 

In Loveboard, a broken relationship is embedded in a broken iPhone. Fragments of texts, voice recordings, selfies, videos, and pictures serve as puzzle pieces to remap a romance that no longer exists in reality, but persists digitally. The Living Wardrobe similarly tells the story of a relationship through an inanimate object rooted in the physical world: the filmmaker’s own closet. Intimacy quietly accumulates as a stranger’s clothes, scent, and presence merge with his own. 

Together, the films function as personal archives of memory, one preserved through digital traces, the other through material remnants of shared life.