Touch

This is such a life affirming short film that it may well make you cry (if you are as big and as soft as I am it is a guarantee). It shows, through a series of tiny vignettes, the relationship between two people from their original introduction until – well, watch it and find out. At just over two minutes no one can accuse you of wasting your time, even if you are work. OK, possibly if you are at work but if you share it with your boss then you should be fine. Don’t send me a bill if you get fired, though.

Touch is directed and edited by Nimer Rashed and produced by Lindsay Fraser who also appears in the short as Katie. He was the Royal Court Theatre’s filmmaker-in-residence in 2012 (if you live outside of the UK that’s quite prestigious). He also writes plays and theater scripts.

Touchy the Human Camera

This will do nothing to convince you otherwise if you are currently of the opinion that quite a few Japanese are, to put it bluntly, a little barmy. Artist Eric Siu has always been a little jealous of the life of a camera so he decided to make himself in to a human version. Touchy was born – and for him to work you need to do just that – touch him!

Grab the bulb and touch Touchy and his shutters will open and he will be able to see. Touch Touchy for 10 seconds, he will take a photo. This is a short documentary of Touchy's debut street performance in Akihabara - the famous electric town in Japan. Touchy has played with the friendly crowd and took a lot of photos capturing the touchy moments. We are promised that he will visit more places and interact with more people in the near future… only in Japan, eh! It reminds me of something my grandmother used to say on a regular basis when she saw anything that mildly perplexed her - no wonder kids are daft.