Movies

Absence of telepresence is a personal cinematic reflection on the gradual merging of phone, address book, camera and computer into one gadget. A hybrid of documentary, feature film and experiment about our relationship to communication technologies.

The cinematic mix consists of essayistic narratives and images inspired by historical artists whose works are closely related to communication protocols: Buster Keaton, Sophie Call and Nam June Paik. The director's photo series of people with smartphones taken in Seoul in 2017 and Tokyo in 1997 are merged with the media performances of the following artists: Sandra Sterla, Gilda Bavčević, William Linn and Nina Kamenjarin. The technological and artistic concepts of telephones in recent history were performed and presented simultaneously with nostalgia, futurism and humor.