Video

Sniff

Ming Yuen S. Ma

1997, 05:00 minutes, colour/B&W, English

TAPECODE 012.05

In a stark white room, a naked man is crawling in a circle on an unmade bed. He is trying to remember the men he had sex with on the bed by searching for their smells. A fragmentary account of his encounters is layered within a dense electronic soundscape of whispering voices, evoking a sense of whispering voices, evoking a sense of memory and loss and the fear of death.

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