NO SEX LAST NIGHT (DOUBLE BLIND)
dir. Sophie Calle and Greg Shephard, 1992
United States, 76 mins.
In English and French.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 – 5 PM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 – 7:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 – 7:30 PM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 – 10 PM
“Both road movie and diary of a hopelessly neurotic romance between two passive-aggressives, No Sex Last Night is compelling viewing”
-Amy Taubin, The Village Voice
The iconic French artist Sophie Calle turns her typically voyeuristic impulses inward, and drags her former lover, the American photographer Greg Shephard, along for the ride in the auto-ethnographic No Sex Last Night, a fraught and daring documentation of a romance on the rocks.
No Sex Last Night begins with Calle’s “burial” of her friend, the gay autofictional novelist Hervé Guibert, before embarking on a coast-to-coast roadtrip of flagrant Americana. Calle and Shephard, the two lovers, who had not been living together for long, board an untrustworthy Cadillac and head from New York to California, camcorders ablaze along the way. Meant to be Calle’s first video project, the two photographers found their interests to primarily be in still images, and frozen excerpts from the camcorder footage comprise the majority of the runtime.
Special thanks to Electronic Arts Intermix and Micah Gottlieb