Filmmaker Statement

I was for many years one of those smartphone refuseniks. Until one day my commuting time became very long. So I got an old iPhone from my brother to kill the time on the train. Suddenly my daily life changed 180 degrees. I didn’t only use it on the train to kill the time but day by day it consumed me more, prior to that I was looking around at people, at trees, at my surroundings but suddenly I looked at nothing but the phone, losing myself entirely in those few centimeters of the display. It felt really odd when I realized what was happening to me and that’s how the idea came to capture this weird feeling in a film. Nowadays I am, as most people used to it and it is a normal part of my daily life to stare at it all the time, but I do think we all should be aware of how much time we spend staring at the screen, and look up once in a while, or else we might miss out on life. – TS