I AM : )
I made this film with YouTubers videos with less than 10 views, back when there was no real algorithm to manipulate your choice and therefore not having followers or millions or views were no particular reason for being discarded. It was easy to navigate and quickly reach a certain depth, a key word happened to be enough. So I researched, using words that spoke to my anxiety, to my fears, loneliness. Some of the videos I found had only one view: mine. I watched hours and hours of footage and I was moved to find such intimately personal confessions, cries for help, but also caring advice, support, compassion.
Narrated by the voices of a young generation of chat roulette and youtube users, I am 🙂 meditates on the dualistic reality of the web. While the world outside kept becoming louder and demanding for consumption, the web became both an alienating mean of our offline social life, but also a space to be seen, to express oneself and to look for a community to belong. Now I have a feeling the web got even noisier, faster, more intrusive than the shop windows, the advertising on billboards and all the rest. Still there is a dualism. This film was made when we were still in film school. It holds that naivety of someone just starting to engage with complexity and storytelling, but still I feel is an important testimony, an archeological memory of one of the steps that brought us where we are.
CREDITS
DIRECTOR Giorgio Bosisio
PRODUCTION COMPANY London Film School
PRODUCER Gabriel Stavenhagen
DOPÂ Alex Grigoras
CAMERA OPERATORÂ Ben Mitchell
EDITOR Iason Arvanitakis
MUSIC Glynn Bolter
TECH SPECS
>SHORT DOC<
PRODUCTION YEAR 2012
COUNTRY UK
RUNNING TIME 9m41s
SHOOTING FORMAT 16mm
LANGUAGE English
FESTIVALS
Guanjuato International Film Festival, 2013 – Seleciòn Oficial Corto Documental
Mecal – Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes y Animaciòn de Barcelona