Well, well, well – we had a very nice surprise in the office the other day. We received a package full of handwritten confessions from Turin, Italy.
In January, The Fish & Chips Festival in Turin had a screening of XConfessions. It was an honour to get featured in this great festival – they’re an modern erotic film festival who encourage film makers and viewers to look at sexuality sexuality in a free, innovative, creative, and intelligent way. As their manifesto puts it best “we believe in eroticism as a basic need of human beings and we want to show sex from different points of view, be they psychological, physical or social, but in any case liberating and non-discriminatory.” Great initiative! The audience-members who came to the XConfessions screening were invited to write down confessions and to send them to me.
And forgive me for being an old romantic, but what a privilege to get to read these! To see such different styles of handwriting, some neat and some gentle and shaky, different ink, different types of paper… every personality comes through in a letter. Even though I didn’t know anything about the age, gender or looks of the senders, I could really feel their presence.
Perhaps I should rally for more handwritten confessions?
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