Sophy Romvari’s film follows a young woman who works online, sometimes stripping, sometimes singing, always involved in the performance of self.
Sophy Romvari’s short film collapses the boundaries between two types of ministration: sex work and companion care.
“Come spank me in Niagara,” a young woman says, cocking her orange curls to the side. The light in the room is hazy and dim. A man responds, through the screen of her computer, with laughter. He isn’t coming to Niagara. He has to pick up his kids in twenty minutes. It’s just a preliminary meeting, through the protective mediation of their devices, before they decide whether they want to pursue an arrangement in person.
So goes the title of a new short film by Sophy Romvari that collapses the boundaries between two types of ministration—sex work and companion care—capturing Moss in various conversations with either type of caller. “To me, on the surface, sex work and singing to the elderly are just different modes of meeting someone else’s needs,” Romvari said. In between these gestures, as the phones ring and days turn to nights, nights back to mornings, we get a glimpse of Moss’s own isolation.
In one of the final conversations, Moss’s mobile interlocutor is not a Jewish grandmother or prospective patron but Romvari herself. The director has remained largely silent and invisible, executing her subjectivity through visual language, but now she breaks the story’s veneer to challenge its perspective. Throughout the film, viewers can’t help but make their own assumptions about Moss, filling gaps in the narrative about what she is doing, or why.
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