DECODING The iPhone Xs: A Techno-Magical Portal
Innovative Cinema Short, AT 2018, Farbe, 12 min., eOmdU
Diagonale 2019
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Director, Script, Camera, Editor: Karin Ferrari
Sounddesign: Gerhard Daurer
Additional Credits: Musik
Darren Curtis, Lurking Evil, 2015
Blakeht Celestial Darkness, 2015
Lobo Loko, Lake of Avalon, 2018
Chris Zabriski, Last Night I Dreamt, 2018
Producers: Karin Ferrari
Production: Karin Ferrari
The iPhone Xs as more than simply a modern mobile phone; as a code that Karin Ferrari sets out to interpret. In a re-assemblage of the ad made by Apple, the film develops an impressive density of semiotic linkages, while at the same time, repeatedly succumbs to the paranoid sign mania.