The skin of the film - Laura Marks

Certainly, touch seems to be the foundation upon which subsequent sensuous experience is built. More than any other sensory deprivation, the loss of the tens of touch creates a feeling of being an orphan in the world. Irigaray’s question, “How to preserve the memory of the caress?,” rests on a fundamental sense of loss: of a world of tactility experienced by the fetus and the infant, before language and vision organize its sensorium”