Not your Phone

Following the witness report of a young woman’s hunt to get her stolen smartphone back, an intimate inquiry into today’s digital communication infrastructure and its omniscient position in today’s society unfolds. An uncanny moment occurs when images and videos of another person appear in her cloud-mirrored photo stream using her stolen device.

Allegorically set against the backdrop of the ancient understanding of the heaven, once a sphere occupied by saints and gods, the film investigates this dynamic shift of our present times, in which the heavens spiritual importance as a means to introduce oneself to the beyond with one’s most inner desires, is being transformed by modern communication tools into pleas for attention in the public sphere.

The project was kindly supported by NEUSTART KULTUR, Secretary of State for Culture and Media and Stiftung Kunstfonds.