Instalife

A new trend in the internet is fire challenging: people burning themselves with petrol filmed by a camera and load it up to the internet - just to get some Likes. INSTALIFE is an experimental-documentary-film based on photos, which were either directly removed from a social media platform or staged by actors according to the original photos. It brings the photos in a new rhythmic order and combines them with a voice-over reading the original hashtags found on this platform. What happens, when self-expression is going to be a permanent order?

Avant-garde & Experimental
Director:
Benjamin Rost, Alex Schuster
Year:
2014
Country:
Germany
Genre:
Video Art
Length:
6'
Producer:
Sebastian Johannsen, Eva Steegmayer (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH)