THE MECHANICS OF INTIMACY by Benjamin George Filinson is a beautiful abstract journey into modern relationships.

The first protagonist is the music: hypnotizing, pounding, which recalls a feeling of suffocation and "no way out" typical of many interpersonal relationships—the perfect soundtrack to accompany an unpredictable situation such as the discomfort perceived during a relationship.

The second protagonists, only at list level and not of importance, are photography and set design. The story unfolds in 7 locations (the first and the last ones are the same). The protagonists (a woman and a man, Kristina Guzikova and the author Benjamin Filinson) move through these spaces full of color, chosen not by chance. Red, green, cold white, green again that turns into red through orange and an internal set with white, almost blue light. And finally, red again. Red of the feelings and red of the sunset in the desert that extinguishes this story.

The passage of colors inevitably refers to the different moods that we experience during a relationship. And the beautiful and sharp photography tells them intensively. 

The Voice-overs in different languages, French (Pauline Schaettel) and Russian (Kristina Guzikova), could represent the change that an individual is willing to undergo to reach the other. In reality, just like two different languages, change experienced as an unconscious constriction creates nothing but confusion and a lack of authenticity.

Beautiful and technically successful are the images fading in and out flowingly and that animate the scenes. Above all, the white dress that appears on a branch seems to mean: “here, cover yourself,” because the way you are now probably won't make it work.

The Mechanics Of Intimacy is an excellent experimental movie, poetically impregnated with symbols on the most difficult but at the same time intense of feelings: love.