SWIPE - NPO 3
SWIPE is a seven-part drama series about the influence and unforeseen consequences of smartphones on the lives of several twentysomethings, told from the perspective of their phones.
All characters in SWIPE collide and interconnect in subtle ways throughout the episodes, creating an encompassing story about today's twentysomethings and the impactful role smartphones play in their lives.
Creator’s statement
SWIPE is a followup of award-winning short film #tagged (a.o. Rose d'Or 2018, Webby Award 2018, Grand Prize New Media Film Festival 2018), in which a teen finds her social media posts getting out of hand and out of her control.
This time, we focus on twentysomethings, as a first adult generation completely absorbed by smartphones and social media, covering a variety of life's and love's themes in this modern-day collage.
Again, shot with an actual smartphone attached to the camera, using actual apps and interactions, SWIPE literally shows our fixated connection to our devices and asks the question: are we in control, or do our devices control us?
— Martijn Winkler (writer/director)
Shot on location using real
smartphones and live interactions,
without the use of any visual
effects or postproduction.
Credits.
Roy Kaneza - Karim
Mitch Wolterink - Casper
Marloes IJpelaar - Lara
Pim van Hövell - Maarten
Valéry van Gorp - Caty
Anouk van Egmond - Janice
Luca Heuvel - Fedor
Samer Fahad - Tim
Gaülli Stam - Anna
Saïda Fakher - Khadija
Inge Schouten - Mirjam
Writer/director - Martijn Winkler
Producer - Mandy Lim
Executive producers - Gervaise Coebergh, Martijn Winkler
Cinematography - Diderik Evers
Production Design - Pieter Christiaans
Editor - Nils Rensen
Sound Design - René Overhorst
Music Composers - James Banbury & Pete Davis
VFX - Jitte Hoekstra
Social Media Coordinator - Karim Kadri, Michiel Bernabela
Stunt Coordinator - Simon van Lammeren