Shot in Los Angeles, New York, London and Tokyo, Touch follows 100 people who share their stories of human connection and what that means to them in a beautiful and energetic collision of culture, history and experience.
Touch was initially born from our response to the isolation of the pandemic lockdown, but over the last four years, as the world feels increasingly more divided, the film has come to represent something more potent: the urgency of human connection.
For us, Touch isn’t singular, it can conjure everything from the hardest parts of being human [loss and grief] to the greatest [the thrill of a first kiss to finding the love of your life]. We wanted the film to encompass a spectrum of stories, told by and for, the people who experienced them.
Touch took four years to make, not just because of the global logistics, but because it took time to cast and shoot so many different stories. We met people through friends, through social and also spontaneously on the street, and followed their personal stories shooting in their homes, favourite places or in random spots out in the world.
The film is soundtracked by LA based spoken word artist Arielle Estoria [who also stars in the film] and wrote the poem in response to the film.
Directed by Sam Pallach Robinson (USA)