Social media is booming and we're giving in to the frenzy: Get your love-app and become entangled in the systems' hotlines! Cut your ear off and stand out in the crowd! Keep your friends under surveillance and cast a glance into the future! All privacy issues aside: we like it! - The programme in november also gets screened at the monthly interfilm www.shortsattack.com
12.11.2013, 21:00 h,
Babylon - Kino 3
16.11.2013, 16:00 h,
Babylon - Kino 2
Director(s): Maarten Koopman
Netherlands, 2011
6:00 min
Genre: Animation
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: no subtitles
Can the automated recordings on telephone wait loops drive someone crazy? The sketches drawn by a man while on hold offer clues.
Director(s): Philipp Scholz
Germany, 2012
4:30 min
Genre: Short Fiction
Dialogues: German
Subtitles: English
Paul is constantly connected and can't live without his smartphone. But on his lucky day he should have thought about leaving it at home.
Director(s): Manniac
Germany, 2013
11:00 min
Genre: Animation
Dialogues: Deutsch
What is a surveillance state? A comprehensive explanation.
Director(s): Sebastian Lindblad
Sweden, 2013
11:00 min
Genre: Short Fiction
Dialogues: Swedish
Subtitles: English
A Skype window can only show a small part...of a room, or a personality.
Director(s): Chris Foggin
England, 2011
12:00 min
Genre: Short Fiction
Dialogues: Englisch
Mary and Linda spend an afternoon discussing the pleasures, pitfalls and problems of wooing local choirmaster Trevor.
Director(s): Maurício Perussi
Brazil, 2013
1:30 min
Genre: Short Fiction
Dialogues: Englisch
Brazilian barkeepers manipulate beer glasses in such a way that guests have no choice but to stop playing with their phones.
Director(s): Verena Pfister, Oliver Christiansen
Switzerland, 2012
3:00 min
Genre: Animation
Dialogues: Englisch
Subtitles: -
Nothing is normal in this city, but everybody has one thing in common: they use smartphones and their apps.
Director(s): Eran May-raz , Daniel Lazo
Israel, 2012
8:00 min
Genre: Short Fiction
Dialogues: Englisch
Today, Google Glass. Tomorrow, Sight. What happens when every aspect of our lives has an app?
Director(s): Milcho Manchevski
USA, 2013
1:30 min
Genre: Short Fiction
When a phone is window to all the world, it's easy to lose sight of what's happening right in front of you.
Director(s): Jean-François Asselin
Canada, 2013
14:30 min
Genre: Short Fiction
Dialogues: Französisch
Subtitles: English
You think of me therefore I am. For Mathieu, social networks seem to be the only solution.
Director(s): Ben Brand
Netherlands, 2013
8:00 min
Genre: Short Fiction
Dialogues: -
When you try to find love with a phone app, the search quickly turns into a hunt!