This paper studies how transnational children and their distantly locatedbut emotionally close family members recreate their relationship usingapplications for online video calling. The focus is on the interaction ofbodies and language, and if/how proximity of any kind is enabled. Acritical posthumanist applied linguistics is embraced and communicationis viewed as a bodily coordination ocurring in real time. This includes amaterial and dynamic view of language in constant transformation.Video captures are produced with three transnational, multilingualfamilies in China and their adult relatives residing abroad (Europe).Moment analysis informs the processing of data. The analysis includesmultipart semiotic assemblages of critical/creative moments and appliesthe Deleuzian concept of sense. The results suggest, the multi-localanalogue/digital situation in online calling transcends conventionallyimagined spatial ‘boundaries’. Furthermore, a bodily, multisensoryproximity emerge as simultaneously critical to and created by thistranscending spatiality. Multi-local communicative practices shed lighton the multiple, material and semiotic components of the humansenses, and how a rational understanding of proximity might be twisted.Proximity constantly emerges ‘in new copies’ transcending the far awayand close.