Short Film
7 minutes | 2018

The View follows two women on their search through mediated worlds, one carrying an hourglass, the other a smartphone. It seeks to acknowledge the impacts of digital technology on our relationships to time, to ourselves, and on our ability to experience the sublime. Hypnotic, transient realities continuously fracture the frame of a majestic landscape. As the sands flow and seconds pass, we fall deeper into the loss of our digital innocence. The View takes inspiration from futurist theories including Alvin Toffler's book, Future Shock, written in 1970. It describes ‘future shock’ as a state of mind that comes about when an individual is not able to mentally or emotionally keep up with the rapid rate of technological change.