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ON / OFF

By Nicolas P. VILLARREAL

COTE D'AZUR WEBFEST - as BROAD

Animation - Completed 2021

Endless distractions threaten to destroy creativity.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Animation
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 7 mn
- Director(s)
- Nicolas P. VILLARREAL
- Synopsis
- ON / OFF relays my view of today's technology and how social media can be a considerable distraction to creative minds and discipline. Something that can derail you inadvertently from a passion that you may have and dedicate less time to neglecting it. It's my imagination and perspective of how geniuses like Frida Kahlo, Da Vinci, Beethoven, and Tesla would have interacted with it as well as their attitude and decision making towards their work with their counterparts today.
  
  My favorite films, shorts, features, documentaries are the ones that leave me thinking about the content after the fact, questioning my life and or inspiring me. I hope this film does the same about how we interact with technology and social media and shows us how there could be a possibly different future utilizing it for something productive, creating things that we feel we have to get out there.
  
  Hopefully, it will make them go back to that passion that they have and the urge to create something that they have been keeping in the back of their minds. You can use social media and technology for your work, but it can also be a black hole that sucks you in it. I hope the film's message leaves the audience questioning their attitudes towards their passions and thinking if they are sacrificing something great that they could be doing by inconsequential and ephemeral social media content that won't affect their lives positively.