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Inspired by
Antoine Geiger and his SUR-FAKE series, the final shot is meant to very
drastically convey the message and it’s importance by showing how the person’s
face is literally sucked into the phone. Why did I choose to edit this last
shot on Photoshop? Because I thought that as a conclusion, it would be
interesting to just visually make it even clearer what all the previous shots
have already tried to say one way or another.
The shot features a girl on the toilet, because the bathroom is one of the most intimate
places ever, in movies or TV shows people sometimes sit on the toilet for hours
so they can read a magazine, contemplate life and most importantly won’t have
to confront other people. What this shot shows is, how this has changed with
the emergence of mobile phones. We don’t want to confront people outside, yet
we also don’t want to be alone when sitting on the toilet because we’re so used
to being connected 24/7 that when we’re alone ‘it feels like a problem that we
need to solve’. (Turkle)
I feel like
this last shot should in a way also be shocking people, show them what we’ve
become, sitting on the toilet with our faces sucked into our phones, sad isn’t
it.
We had an
evolution, from just a group of friends on a table, to someone alone in a shop,
a mother-daughter relationship in the kitchen or a married couple in a coffee
shop, and the result is that far from only alienating us from those that we
love and that are closest to us, whether it’d be at home or in a public space,
we also alienate us from ourselves, we loose the ability to be alone even in
one of the most random situations, such as going to the toilet.
The phone
has become an integral part of us, without which we feel wrong, sick and lost.
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