NO SEX LAST NIGHT (DOUBLE BLIND)
dir. Sophie Calle and Greg Shephard, 1992
United States, 76 mins
In English and French
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“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
French artist Sophie Calle turns her typically voyeuristic impulses inward, dragging her former lover, American photographer Greg Shephard, along for the ride in this fraught and daring auto-ethnographic documentation of romance on the rocks.
NO SEX LAST NIGHT begins with Calle “burying” her friend, the gay autofictional novelist Hervé Guibert, before embarking on a road trip from New York to California with Shephard in an untrustworthy Cadillac. The lovers, who have not lived together long, have their camcorders ablaze the whole way. Meant to be Calle’s first video project, the two photographers found themselves primarily interested in still images, and frozen excerpts from the camcorder footage make up most of the runtime.
Special thanks to Electronic Arts Intermix and Micah Gottlieb.