TSMT is an experimental performance film manifesting the violence through hair, unveiling the mask behind caring, and examining the “insignificance” of hair as a sense as well as a sensor.
“Care and violence are strictly connected, because caring often means caring in one specific way. Care follows the assertive logic of the gift: I am giving you a piece of advice from which you will benefit. Yet it considers the gift not as part of an exchange or a dialogue, but as an utter surprise: I am giving you a piece of advice that you cannot refute. And since I give it for free and put all of myself in it, as I really believe in it, you cannot be offended. On the contrary, you must accept it and be pleased, and even excuse me if there is so much thoughtlessness in such advice, because it is less a gift than violence: a way to shape your life according to my needs.”
- Emanuele Lugli