Tabula Rasa

The target of Tabula Rasa is the heart of cinema Voyeuristic desire as the precondition for all cinema pleasure is at stake here What Christian Metz and Jacques Lacan have established in theory is rendered as film in Tabula Rasa At the beginning we can recognize only shadows from which the picture of a woman undressing herself hesitantly emerges But exactly at the point when one believes one can make out what it is the camera is located in front of the object Tabula Rasa takes distance the fundamental principle of voyeurism in so far literally as it shows us the object of desire but continually removes it from our gaze