Melissa dances through a bedroom strip

Melissa moves in front of a home camera, the bedroom light flat and everyday, a white bed and a plain wall behind her. Black underwear goes first at the straps, worked loose in time with whatever she is listening to, so the striptease keeps the rhythm of the dance instead of breaking away from it.

Amateur films like this one live or die on whether she looks like she is enjoying herself, and she clearly is. Small smiles, a glance down to check the frame, a hip turn repeated because it landed well the first time. The ordinariness of the room does half the work.