Documenting twenty strangers kissing for the first time, US filmmaker Tatia Pilieva's short film First Kiss, was such a viral hit-maker that in the four months since it was first streamed on YouTube, it has garnered over 84 million views and spawned dozens of parodies, some more thoughtful thanothers.
Now she's back with a follow-up - and this time the strangers are doing more than kiss. They're getting naked. Undress Me (which was made in collaboration with US channel Showtime, to mark the Season 2 premiere of The Masters of Sex) only went up on YouTube yesterday, but it's already racked up over 1 million views, proving that Tatia's format is an instant crowd-pleaser.
'I asked strangers to undress each other and get in bed' Tatia writes in the film's caption. 'Nothing else. No rules.' It's another beautiful film - like First Kiss, Undress Me is filmed in black and white, the dialogue is debatably scripted and Tatia's strangers are an aesthetically pleasing bunch. It's almost painfully intimate to watch - so one can only imagine how it must have felt for the subjects of the film. Some of them really struggle to remove one anothers clothes (pretty true to IRL then) while others are fairly seductive about the whole thing.
Some of them even kiss at the end, which makes you feel really happy. The really old couple who snuggle will make you cry. There's at least two seriously fit men that had us watching the video three times. And in three short minutes, you feel like they are the protagonists you've been rooting for all along. We're not sure there's huge point to the video other than to make you realise that people undressing is oddly moving, rather than just plain old sexual - but there is one thing to note. They don't actually get naked. They keep their underwear on. So for any Saturday morning horndogs out there ... sorry.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.