"The Body presents the paradox of contained and container at once. Thus our attention is continually focused upon the boundaries or limits of the body; known from an exterior, the limits of the body as object; known from an interior, the limits of its physical extension into space. Lacan has described 'erotogenic' zones of the body as those areas where there are cuts and gaps on the body's surface-the lips, the anus, the tops of the penis, the slit formed by the eyelids, for example. He writes that it is these cuts or apertures on the surface of the body which allow the sense of "edge," borders, or margins by differentiating the body from the organic functions associated with such apertures."
Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Duke University Press, 1993. Pg. 104
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We tend to believe that we, as individuals, are separate from the world around us. In extension to this quality, the films we see can only portray the images around us, dissociated from our experiences. When in fact, visual narratives are extensions of our psyche and our way of interpreting data. Henceforth, the camera is actually a conscious channel through which information gets absorbed by the gaps on our bodies, not separate from our existence.
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