Observer
- Studio
- National Film Board of Canada
- Distributor
- National Film Board of Canada
Synopsis
Smartphones cannot feel, smell or taste, yet they are not without their own senses. Using raw data from the low-level sensors of a cell phone, this film offers a unique point of view on the world as it might appear to our increasingly aware mobile devices.
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Brendan Matkin
Producing
- Producer
- Michael Fukushima
- Executive Director
- David Verrall
Writing
- Writer
- Brendan Matkin
Animation
- Animator
- Brendan Matkin
Music
- Music
- Geneviève Levasseur
Editing
- Editor
- Jason Lee
Crew
- Writer
- Brendan Matkin
- Director
- Brendan Matkin
- Animator
- Brendan Matkin
- Mentoring director
- Munro Ferguson
- Music composer
- Geneviève Levasseur
- Pianist
- Geneviève Levasseur
- Editor
- Jason Lee
- Sound designer
- Luigi Allemano
- Technical director
- Éloi Champagne
- Foley
- Karla Baumgardner
- Recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Re-recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Sound edit intern
- Sharron Mursky
- Titles
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- On-line
- Denis Pilon
- Technical co-ordination
- Steve Hallé
- Administration
- Victoire-Émilie Bessette, Rosalina Di Sario, Simon Zaurrini, Stéphanie Lalonde
- Executive producer
- David Verrall
- Producer
- Michael Fukushima
- Associate Producer
- Jelena Popovic
Production notes
This short was made for the ninth edition of the NFB's animation program for emerging filmmakers, Hothouse.