Cell Stories

The first documentary filmed by a mobile phone? Short, funny and serious stories, with the mobile in the lead role. By the famous cinematographer, co-director of Ken Park (Larry Clark, 2002). Dog : “I went home and I had a message on my answering machine and I was hoping it was her and I press play and I hear: Grrrrrrrr….” / Taxi : “When I moved up from Alabama I never thought I would fall in love with a New Yorker but my cell phone helped me do it.” / Wrong Number : “I have to tell her that she is not reaching her boyfriend with all these messages she’s reaching me! She calls me about a week and a half later and tells me that they got engaged. So it was really sweet, she ended up with a valentine and I ended up with my little cell phone.” / Bear : “He is going to eat us! I patted my pockets and I found my cell phone and that’s all I found and I go like ‘Hey, hey, get away bad bear!’. It ran away, it probably never heard a sound like this, so I like to think that the cell phone saved our lives.” / Artist : “I like using images that belong to our surroundings, especially media images because they are images that everyone knows.” / Fiona : “This cell phone is my baby, really it is. If I ever go out without it, I feel like I am completely like lost, like I’m completely disconnected with the world, because everything is in this phone, like my entire social network.” / OTB : “You know I call my phone big Baba and I always wanted to be a big guy when I was a kid but once big Baba betrayed me.”