Ralph Pritchard

Film director and film critic.

Co-host of Return to Form podcast
Co-founder of Via Negativa film production company.

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Heaven, Hell.


A video I made between 2016-17 about instant messaging and desire.

It has been published by NOWNESS and exhibited as part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018.


‘One of the biggest challenges in building suspense while using informal text conversations is dealing with the body. When we write a message our body feels absent, and yet often our body is very present, shaking and aching as we ruminate with a friend or lover in the virtual space of the messages. Just as our bodies hold and remember trauma, we also experience longing and desire very physically.’

For more, read my recent blog post for New Contemporaries.