The Insider’s guide to travelling without moving: Power, empathy and threads that connect at the Göteborg Film Festival
5 Feb 2021
A scene from Swedish provocateur Anna Odell’s film, Undersökningen (The Examination). (Courtesy of Göteborg Film Festival)
I am naked from the waist down, my weight balanced at the top of my tailbone and my feet up in the air with legs splayed out by plastic stirrups.
I am exposed, vulnerable and only vaguely preoccupied with the paranoia that if the screen in front of me possessed spyware, it would be able to conduct a reasonable mapping out of my sphincter for Google.