Hi! You are Currently Being Recorded (2023) [Chattanooga Film Festival 2024]

Dangerous Visions Shorts Block

We traded our privacy for security. And when we lost the privacy and kept the security and realized it didn’t make much of a difference it was too late to get our privacy back. We live in a world where there are cameras everywhere, and everything is taking footage of something going on in the background and foreground. More than ever we’re being viewed through some kind of robotic lens.

And we’ve yet to really prepare ourselves to know how far that rabbit hole goes.

 Director Anna Maguire plays main character Anna an American tourist who is cruising Los Angeles anxious to meet up with an old flame. While walking the streets, she is astonished by high security every piece of environment is. In the midst of her conversation and lighting up, she ends up in the middle of a cul de sac. Before long she realizes she’s not just lost, but stuck in a weird, lifeless, liminal labyrinth.

 

“Hi! You Are Currently…” is such a stark statement on how much technology has replace actual humanity. Anna is a woman stuck in an environment she’s not normally adept to traveling through, and worse is there isn’t a person who can help her. “Hi! You are Currently…” is beautifully directed and brilliantly edited with some really dark cut away’s and POV shots. It’s a great exploration on the death of community.

 

This year, The Chattanooga Film Festival runs from June 21st through 28th (June 21st – 23rd In-Person, and June 21st-28th Virtually).