"I Wanted the Film to Feel Like an Online Dating Hall of Mirrors": Pacho Velez on his Sundance-Debuting Searchers

As someone who came of age at a time when looking for a potential partner(s), be it for a lifetime or one night, was less a neat calculated exercise and more a messy spontaneous surprise, I've never quite understood the appeal of online dating. Seeking love and/or sex via swipe just always seemed creepily clinical and controlled, cold and robotic -- about as sexy as in vitro fertilization to my mind. And yet watching Pacho Velez's Searchers, an exploration of online connecting through the eyes (...