Philosopher Jacques Rancière defines ‘distance’ as the necessary condition for any communication, asserting that it is the space between two positions that creates the ground across which exchange can take place. In the relationship between the viewer and the image, distance can establish a form of reciprocity enabling a ‘right of reply’ to the spectator. In this programme a collection of essay films explores the productive capacities of the distance between ourselves and the screens of our devices. (1) Johannes Binotto’s short film Practices of Viewing: Distance is a meditation on the shifting of distances as content moves across formats and devices, implicating us and our bodies in different ways and allowing for new meanings to emerge. (2) In just a few years, the gaming chair has infiltrated the bedrooms of gamers and content creators. Intrigued by an object that is half office chair and half car seat, Bailleul’s The Look for Sit Down explores how the gaming chair disembodies us, holding the body within a pacifying embrace such that we may inhabit the screen image. Completing the programme, (3) Lého Galibert-Laîné’s I Would Like to Rage investigates the performativity of rage online to ask: what is an authentic expression of anger? The film's denouement shows Lého stood in the frame of a projected image reperforming expressions of anger to question if this form of embodied viewing can engender the affect of rage.