My Dearest F#cking Phone (0+)
the Netherlands, 2014, colour, 17 min.
Director: Eef Hilgers
Director: Eef Hilgers
Claudia (14) has, like many teenage girls, an intense love-hate relationship with her smartphone. She feels alone and insecure, fueled by the pictures of beautiful, successful and fun-loving friends on Instagram. She herself has made sure she is hard to find online. She considers herself not pretty enough. It's no wonder that she is dreading the vacation because that means no Internet. Strikingly enough, these days without a Wi-Fi connection turn out to be a breakthrough for Claudia.
Eef Hilgers
Eef Hilgers
graduated in 2012 from St. Joost Art Academy with Just a Girl, You Know (20'), a film about teenage girls who use Youtube to forge a new identity for themselves. The film was selected for IDFA 2012 and won TENT Academy Award. For Villa Achterwerk (VPRO) she directed two episodes of Tough cookie (2013-2014, 15 x 25'), a series about young carers that was nominated for the Emmy Awards 2014 and won the BANFF Rockie Award in 2014.
FILMOGRAPHY
Just a Girl, You Know, 2012; My Dearest F#cking Phone, 2014.
the Netherlands, 2014, colour, 17 min.
Director: Eef Hilgers
Director: Eef Hilgers
Claudia (14) has, like many teenage girls, an intense love-hate relationship with her smartphone. She feels alone and insecure, fueled by the pictures of beautiful, successful and fun-loving friends on Instagram. She herself has made sure she is hard to find online. She considers herself not pretty enough. It's no wonder that she is dreading the vacation because that means no Internet. Strikingly enough, these days without a Wi-Fi connection turn out to be a breakthrough for Claudia.