Without Touch

Anežka Střelbová / Czech Republic / 2025 / World Premiere / 4 min.

synopsis

The seemingly purely observational fascination with insect bodies is disrupted by a diegetic soundtrack composed of distinctive frequencies to which the observed creatures are exposed. This scientific film experiment, which results in a visual transcription of their auditory responses into colored marks on a speaker, concludes with a tragic punchline.

“The film captures how certain insects react to sound frequencies that are also used, for example, in military applications.” — from the film’s accompanying material

biography

Anežka Střelbová is a student at Ladislav Sutnar's New Media Studio at the Faculty of Design and Art in Pilsen. She focuses on audiovisual work at the intersection of film and music videos and directed the official music video for the song Genius loci (2025) of the band Kráľová.