Dacrifilia

Tears as desire. Vulnerability is the most intimate thing a body can offer.

Dacryphilia — the sexual arousal triggered by someone else's tears — is one of the least talked about and most deeply human fetishes in existence. And Silvia Rubi, visual artist and dacryphiliac, has built her entire practice around it.

Under the guise of research, she sits down with Maximilian Gambero for an interview. The conversation begins innocuously. And then, with quiet, deliberate skill, she guides it — smoothly, precisely — toward exactly the moment she has been waiting for. The tears he has been trying to hold back. The vulnerability he didn't plan to show.

She was always going to get there.

A documentary that is also a seduction. Artsy, deeply psychological, and unlike anything else in the fetish canon — because some desires live in the most tender, unexpected places.