MARIOS PAVLOU
THE DIAL UP STORY, AN E-TALE
BY CIEVIL MOMO
short film, duration 00:15:04, 2014
This film is the sequel of the Dial Up Trilogy installation. The narration is done by Cievil Momo, who gives an insight of what he thinks about the anthropological changes of our era and how he exists between two worlds, the digital and the physical. He tries to convey feelings and thoughts about the human nature and how it evolves in different directions through the use of social media and digital approaches of love.
“ An overseas virus starts to eat your thoughts, and your mermaid tail starts to immobilise. Be careful, be careful, swim faster than data and get out of the screen. Get out of the screen! Get Out! Mission abort! Mission abort and the system goes down. You are down with the system. Exploitation begins and all the cyano-data eat your profile and the mermaid tail turns to dust…”
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