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Rapport Video film

Following Transitions, Rapport examines how the online use of Skype enabled couples to conduct long-term relationships between countries or at non-commutable distances, and is a vehicle for staging sexualized conversations. Instead of telephone sex, online visually-enhanced conversations are becoming a normal way to maintain these relationships.

‘Rapport’ explored long distance desire through the experience of a Norwegian couple who used Skype to conduct their long-term relationship. Subjects were asked to reveal their experience of using Skype and to comment on the phenomena of their primarily virtual relationship. Subjects discuss their experience of Skype objectively, and explain candidly how it works for them on a day-to-day basis. The video swaps and changes between discussion on camera to private performance , along with straight interview material. This particular relationship also allows the viewer to witness a game of sorts between them where the couple play submissive/dominant role play. The exploration of fictionalised role play and fantasy led to the research involved in ‘Therapies’.