SWIPE

The Smartphone movie about you and your most intimate companion… your phone. Experience the impact of your phone on your lifestyle and communication. A visual love letter to that gadget you can't live without!

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The average person unlocks their phones 150 times a day, how natural is that? On a global scale, more than 5 bilion people have access to a mobile phone connection, and over half of these are smartphones. And let’s face it: these numbers continue to grow. We are now living in a world where more people have access to mobile phones than clean toilets. This fact is equally alarming as significant. It’s a sign of our times. We are living in the Phone Age.

“Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.”

- Steve Jobs, at the first iPhone launch in 2007

From StoneAxe to SmartPhone

In the Stone Age people used stones as their main tool. In the Phone Age this has become the phone. The phone has made profound changes to the way you navigate life, nature and time as it helps you survive the current era.

Vital assessory

People check their phones 150 times per day, and sending an average of 110 text. 46 percent of smartphone users say that their devices are something they 'couldn't live without'

Evolving language and Identity

The digital age brings new words and ways of talking, changing how we chat and see ourselves. Digital natives get it easily, while others are catching up, learning this digital language.

Digital parasites

Although the smartphone is designed to empower individuals, is also exerts control over them. En mass, people plunged into an endless cycle of scrolling, swiping and refreshing. We became slaves to the devices we once controlled. Are we still human? Are we users? Or mere sensors of a superorganism that thrives on our data?

The phone as a body part

Your phone connects you and the world. It's so close to you; it is like an extra body part, you can no longer function without. Even if it's not physically integrated into your body, your phone is nested deep under your skin.

Swiping between mind and matter

Your finger bridges mind and matter. You live and breathe in an interspace, swiping and absorbing information in your bloodflow. Checking your messages is the present way of daydreaming. Endless swiping feels like drugs.

Our tools shape us

The merging of people and technology has been going on for quite some time and has been given different names; AI and robots are currently the best known, but we cannot yet predict what technological humans will look like in 100 years. The smartphone functions like a mirror that we hold up to ourselves and is today the instrument with which people can shape their lives.

We co-evolve with technology

Bees did not always live in colonies. Humans were not always glued to smartphones. Will your phone parasite on you, or turn you into an angel?