Feeling like you’re suffering from information fatigue or a lack of motivation? Are you stuck in a routine, need to be entertained or obsessed with social media? Maybe it’s time to try a ‘Dopamine Detox’. Or not.
4/29/2021
In this documentary composed only of YouTube videos, Udi Nir and Sagi Bornstein follow seven Gen Z vloggers during the unprecedented year that was 2020.
To appreciate the roving, sometimes gauche nature of
Viral, a new documentary following seven YouTube vloggers in 2020, one must consider its experimental form. Premiering at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the film, directed by Udi Nir and Sagi Bornstein, is entirely composed of YouTube videos. This means it is at the mercy of its source material, which privileges authenticity, skews confessional and doesn’t lend itself to an orderly narrative.
Nir and Bornstein specialize in this kind of experimentation. For their previous documentary,
It is not often that a singer, songwriter, author, and self-confessed pinecone collector chooses to reside in the valley. Nor is a CD often given away by that same songwriter,