Users

Synopsis

Director:
Natalia Almada
81 min, US, 2021

Winner of Sundance’s Best Directing Award, acclaimed filmmaker Natalia Almada’s latest film is a personal and hypnotic meditation on the omnipresence of technology in our lives. From the electronic crib that robotically rocks her young son to sleep perfectly every time to the underwater cables that keep us precariously connected across the earth, Almada expresses her anxieties about our modern world, one that is highly advanced and yet dangerously out of balance. “A fully sensory experience” (Indiewire) with “astounding photography” (Variety) and an entrancing soundtrack created in Atmos surround sound with original music by the Kronos Quartet, this cinematic experience evokes the nonfiction work of Godfrey Reggio (the Qatsi trilogy) and Jennifer Baichwal (Anthropocene: The Human Epoch) with a more intimate confessional lens. “Lyrical... elegant… and chilling”... Users is a “mesmerizing exploration of how technology is transforming the ways we relate to the natural world” (Vox).