Thursday, February 5, 2015

Short Film: Mr Selfie



“Mr Selfie” follows a man as he goes through an entire day while staring at his smartphone–which may be awfully familiar to some people. It totally nails our over-reliance on our phones. We use it in bed to fall asleep, we use it in bed when we can't fall asleep, we have our phone in the bathroom, on our commutes, on the sidewalk, through live events, through nature and basically through life.

Maybe it's time to put the phone down.
"Something we have all no doubt noticed is the increasing fixation with what is going on our smartphones - if it's not ourselves, then we regularly see other people walking down the street pre-occupied with their phones, we see buses and trains full of commuters fixated on their little screens desperate for some information fix and it’s not uncommon to see friends in restaurants interacting with their phones rather than each other - all missing what is going on around them and reducing their quality of life as a result. This short animation is a playful tale of this modern phenomenon..."

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