Swell is a smartphone app that changes your mood through sound. When a young couple tries to control each other’s settings, they find their relationship threatened by an unintended cacophony of emotions.
Direction
Savage Cole packs feature-length tension into 10 minutes.
Sound
The app itself becomes a third character.
Director
Bridget Savage Cole
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Swell premiered at SXSW 2016, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Midnight Shorts.
Predates Black Mirror's similar 'Hang the DJ' by a year, proving Savage Cole's eerily prescient instincts.
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