A girl finds out that she has a match on a dating app with a stranger, despite swiping him to the left moments ago. She starts to fear that the man is dangerously close to her.
Direction
Bourgonje weaponizes screen space in six minutes.
Acting
Obsidian's silent panic carries entire runtime.
Director
Niels Bourgonje
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely from the protagonist's POV through her phone screen, making the viewer complicit in her surveillance.
The sound design uses actual Tinder notification sounds, which festival audiences reportedly recognized with audible dread.
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