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phubbers


documentary short 15.30 min (2015)

dir./dp  Marvin Hesse 
music   Mario A. Schöning
prod.    Ute Janssen

crew/workshop: 
Yang Jingli, Zhou Bo, Yang Yunting,  He Runcong

Beihang University Beijin & University of Fine Arts Hamburg

Award: Best Documentary – 4th Mumbai Shorts International Filmfestival 2015



A short documentary. Observing citizens in the Beijing subway stare down on their phones, appearing lonely and inaktive. In the same frame the viewer can read massages from wechat. Two layers of different people. A digital Image of the real world and a documented conversation from the digital world. - A insight of todays china and the app centralisation of WeChat.


“This film draws a very authentic picture of a specific moment in time” 

Michelle Proksell (Artist & Chinternet Expert)



 









“WeChat functions as a place were you do group chat, individual chat, you can post moments, you can also spend money, share money, give money, you can do retail business, you can get a taxi, you can have a virtual girlfriend or boyfriend, a virtual secretary that will go and do things for you, its used in huge marketing skims - its the centralisation of your whole life in one app” Michelle Proksell