Tina Touli's opening titles for Toca Me 2023 are built directly from the festival's name — TOCA ME meaning "touch me" in Spanish. The concept opens into a rich exploration of what touching means: physical texture, emotional contact, sensory experience. The titles don't illustrate the concept so much as enact it, pulling the viewer into surfaces that demand to be felt.
The split-screen dialogue between materials is the key formal decision — different textures entering into conversation across the frame, each one offering a different register of touch. This is conceptual thinking made motion: the form and the content are the same thing.
Touli's work is a strong example of how a design brief can generate rather than constrain creative decisions. The constraint "touch" becomes the most expansive possible starting point.