Can you tell the story of your experiences from the videos you took on your phone? A deeply personal film about anxiety, privilege, and the tricky business of bad things happening to us while even worse things happen to others.
Narrated by a human and a computer voice, the film is a meditation on how fast-paced, goal-oriented, and measurable our lives have become. Does pressing Record on your phone help you understand the world around you – or hide from it? Fast editing, split-screens, breakneck durations and simulations of ocular migraines turn two years’ worth of images (from Cambodia, UK, Italy, Spain) into an exploration of whether anxiety is something entirely individual or maybe something that comes, at least in part, from how humans treat themselves, each other and the planet.
Winner of Video World Premiere Prize at Avanca Film Festival (Portugal) 2021
Winner of Best SmartPhone Film at South Coast Film Festival (United Kingdom) 2021
Voice
Matthew Flacks
Written, directed and produced by
Piotr Cieplak
Cinematography and editing by
Piotr Cieplak
Music by
Piotr Cieplak
Benjamin Tisset
Duration: 9 mins
Date of completion: April 2021
Image: Colour
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Shooting format: 4K
Screening format: digital file
Language: English
Country of production: United Kingdom
Filmed in: United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Cambodia.