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What could have easily been a rote day-in-the-life film is elevated by a shift in focus and an exploration of form, taking footage of characters out and about the city as if performing for an anonymous audience and injecting the comment section or live chat of such an upload up on the screen. The contrast between this knowing and aware personae of the characters and the lack of personae of the commentators makes for a great exploration of a life constantly under scrutiny that today’s youth has to undertake as a result of the constant surveillance and camera presence of the internet

a total blind watch going into this trilogy by Michaela Durand and Daniel Chew. trying to make the best use of my time on the Criterion Channel and what better than to check out the younger filmmakers on their way to making it big? hits a similar, deep sense of relatable melancholy as one of my all time favorite films about the internet, *We’re All Going to The World’s Fair. *this short experiment got to me in a deep place. the use of subtitles in this is genius, and i honestly couldn’t think of a better way to portray what it’s like to get those kind of messages throughout your day. some of those subtitles hit really hard. at first i wasn’t sure what to think, but this is both very strong indie filmmaking and a very powerful little short about the internet era.

What could have easily been a rote day-in-the-life film is elevated by a shift in focus and an exploration of form, taking footage of characters out and about the city as if performing for an anonymous audience and injecting the comment section or live chat of such an upload up on the screen. The contrast between this knowing and aware personae of the characters and the lack of personae of the commentators makes for a great exploration of a life constantly under scrutiny that today’s youth has to undertake as a result of the constant surveillance and camera presence of the internet

a total blind watch going into this trilogy by Michaela Durand and Daniel Chew. trying to make the best use of my time on the Criterion Channel and what better than to check out the younger filmmakers on their way to making it big? hits a similar, deep sense of relatable melancholy as one of my all time favorite films about the internet, *We’re All Going to The World’s Fair. *this short experiment got to me in a deep place. the use of subtitles in this is genius, and i honestly couldn’t think of a better way to portray what it’s like to get those kind of messages throughout your day. some of those subtitles hit really hard. at first i wasn’t sure what to think, but this is both very strong indie filmmaking and a very powerful little short about the internet era.