«Noah» is a short film that reflects the online behavior of young people quite well. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and shows life between browser and smartphone. The film lasts 17 minutes and is one of the most interesting attempts to date to show how much life now takes place via social networks, especially for young people. Sad but touching 17 minutes in which a steady relationship is virtually ended and a new friendship lasts only a few seconds.
The entire short film takes place on one screen. The viewer looks together with Noah, either at the screen of a laptop or a smartphone. Noah himself can only be seen when he is on a Skype call with his girlfriend and is shown in a small window at the bottom right. Many areas that Noah is looking at are magnified: chat windows, browser bars, profile photos, and so on. There is no standstill, he keeps clicking on a new window. Noah is both jittery and bored in equal measure. "Noah doesn't care unless his senses are engaged," say the filmmakers Patrick Cederberg (23) and Walter Woodman (22). In fact, the protagonist cannot hold still for two seconds, he is constantly waiting for actions, reactions, signals. This can be an answer, a Skype call, or a porn movie that is playing in the background while he is on the phone with his girlfriend. He's not listening properly, playing a game while she talks to him and telling him she's worried about the future. His attention span is short, only when he has the feeling that his girlfriend is leaving him does he concentrate fully on her - at that moment the connection is broken and Noah updates the Facebook profile of his still girlfriend every second.
Canadian students Cederberg and Woodman say it took a year to complete the film. Production costs were just $300. The makers made the film because they were dissatisfied with how people in the film use smartphones and laptops: "I feel offended by the way people in the film use smartphones and laptops," says Cederberg. With Noah, they would have tried to find a form of presentation that felt honest. That's why it took the longest to set up the fake Facebook profiles, almost two months. The film is a look back at their own lives and how they used the internet when they were 18 – including stalking, logging into other people's profiles and clicking, marking texts, making one pointless click after the other. "We thought it was time for an overall honest version of The Social Network," say Cederberg and Woodman. The Social Network is the 2010 film about Facebook, in which surprisingly little Facebook can be seen. There is a lot of power struggles, nerds and the right business sense. Classic Hollywood cinema, this film was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the version on YouTube has been clicked almost 950 times to date. The film has been described as a "fascinating study of behavior and romance in the digital age." Must see!
Noah - parents, do you want to know what your child is doing on the computer all the time?
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