is an arts writer, researcher
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Still from Demonlover (2002), dir. Olivier Assayas.
STUCK BETWEEN PRESENCE AND ABSENCE: DEMONLOVER AND MATING
Rough Cut
DigitalFebruary 2020
By Olivia J. Bennett
“Desensitised by the flows of neoliberal society, Assayas and Mannheimer’s films reveal how we extort each other for a semblance of relational intimacy [...convincing ourselves of an authenticity shaped by the same capital forces that engineer value systems and magnify asynchronicities online.]”