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“Have you been under surveillance constantly?”

In the Great Digital Era as of 2015, the mobile device, which digitizes every possible dimension of human behavior through a firmware that far surpasses the utmost capacity human intellect can carry, has formed an unstoppable trend to take over the world.

Despite the smartphone is encroaching the human brain in an irreversible manner, the Mankind stays “phubbing” like an overdosed addict that could not help but keep feeding never-ending data, until the genesis of new species.

Yet, far before that, unprecedentedly, the nomophobia has worsened the deviation of human behavior.

  • Brute Sea
    Director
  • Brute Sea
    Writer
  • Caster Wang
    Producer
  • HAO-WEI WU
    Producer
  • Cleo Chien
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Feature, Short, Web / New Media, Other
  • Genres:
    Drama, Sci-Fi, Experimental, Short film, Mobile, Feature, Video Art
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 8, 2015
  • Production Budget:
    200 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, iPhone6
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Taiwan Mobile 9th myfone Award
    Taipei City
    Grand Jury Prize
  • Los Angeles CineFest
    Los Angeles
    Official Selection
  • Lakeshorts International Short Film Festival
    Toronto
    Official Selection & City of Toronto – Best Performance
  • Festival de Cannes Short Film Corner
    Cannes
    Official Selection
  • Bad Film Fest
    New York
    Official Selection & The Big Brother Award
  • North By Midwest Micro-Budget Film Festival
    Michigan
    Official Selection & 2nd Place
  • VIDEODROME Film/Animation + Video Art Film Fest
    London
    Official Selection
  • Dances With Films
    Los Angeles
    Official Selection
  • Toronto Smartphone Film Festival
    Toronto
    Official Selection
  • Short of the Month
    Internet
    Official Selection
  • Columbia Gorge International Film Festival
    Big Bear Lake, CA
    Official Selection
  • Action On Film International Film Festival
    Monrovia, CA
    Official Selection & Nomination for Best Experimental Project
  • Fan Boy Film Festival
    Internet
    Official Selection
  • BLOW-UP · Chicago International Arthouse FILM FEST
    Chicago
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Brute Sea

BruteSea is a creative director based in Taipei,
who has great passion for story-telling with motion-picture. His team not only focus on the content of the story,
but also on how the story is told. We produce original content for our clients and willing to taste the risk
when the project is outside the traditional scope.
We love to be innovative.

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Director Statement

This film translates one of my perspective of nomophobia and our near future. And it always feels alive to transform creativity into creations.