PERSONAL ATTENTION

Confessions: Personal Attention (2023). Installation view.

Personal Attention (2023). Film still.

2 channel film. 20 min. 4K. 4:5. Color. Stereo sound.
Language: English

Personal Attention presents four encounters with what I have called internalized Others: an ASMRtist, a gym-bro, a fuck boy and a live streamer. Characters — phantoms of memory and translation — who compliment, subjugate, and virtually stroke our cheeks with soft whispers. Personal Attention is at once self-portrait and social critique.

Personal Attention (2023). Film still.

Personal Attention (2023). Film still.

Personal Attention (2023). Film still.

STILLS

FESTIVALS

PREMIERE - B3 Festival of the Moving Image (2023)
Luleå International Film Festival (2023)
RPM in Motion (2025)

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

In a time when our lives are increasingly spent on observing, analyzing and interpreting ourselves - as well as tying ourselves to our own identity - Confessions embodies a cognitive dissonance: the overwhelming contradiction of constantly both doubting and affirming oneself. I believe that we by voicing our pains and struggles of subjectification might expose emotional, cognitive and social dissonances, as well as open ourselves up for new understandings and connections. We might even find ways of breaking out of our ceaselessly looping thoughts and inner tyrants. That is at least my hope.

CREDITS

With Diêm Camille, Johan Bech Jespersen, Carla Eleonora Feigenberg, Niels Justesen

WRITER, DIRECTOR & CINEMATOGRAPHER   Jacob Schill
SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT   Luke Buckley, Daro Hansen, Jonas Algers and Gala Hernández López
EDITOR   Grit Tind Mikkelsen and Jacob Schill
ADDITIONAL EDITING   Daniel Abraham Basse and Jan-Niklas Thape
CASTING ASSISTANCE   Gro Therp
SOUND RECORDIST   Rasmus Emil Mikkelsen
RUNNER   Julie Nymann

Thanks to Jane Jin Kaisen, Agnieszka Polska and Maria Colomer Canyelles