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Koimoi Recommends Swipe: A Pakistani Short Film That Talks About Shattering Dystopia & How It Isnât Too Far From Now
Conceptualised by Arafat Mazhar, Swipe is a 14-minute look at a possible future that holds the darkest of the phases for humans.
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Koimoi Recommends Swipe: 2 decades ago, the thought of dystopia consisted of a world full of crime and riots. But switch to some odd twenty years later and add the rise of technology to that and the increasing usage of it too. The trigger lies in the hands of millions who own a phone and imagine if your life is dependent on their âswipeâ. Sounds bizarre and frightening right? On Koimoi Recommends today, I recommend you the Pakistani short film created for over a year by 20 highly able artist under Puffball Studioâs umbrella. It is an alarm to the dystopia we all are heading towards and what it looks like.
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Through 14 minutes of hand-drawn images against a haunting original score, Swipe displays the contradictions of modern Pakistan.
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Maafi. Death sentences are now crowdsourced. ‘Crimes’ range from draping dupattas a little too far below the collarbones to failing to forward whatsapp messages under the influence of the devil. Punishment for religious transgressions is no longer the sole purview of the hereafter; it is also subject to mob-justice in the here and now. Through 14 minutes of hand-drawn images against a haunting original score,
Swipe displays the contradictions of modern Pakistan.
Arafat Mazhar calls his new genre of filmmaking Cyber Khilafat, where the anxieties of religion, modernity, and technology collide. Instead of creating a whole new world,
âSwipeâ right for death sentence. A Pakistani film matches Tinder with I-Fatwa
Pakistani filmmaker Arafat Mazhar s new animated film âSwipeâ isn t far-fetched. It imagines life with an app that crowdsources death sentences.
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Just when Pakistanis were increasingly experiencing âfreedomâ, using apps like Tinder, Imran Khan’s âNaya Pakistanâ â now a nightmare State for women, minorities, progressives â blocked dating apps for their ‘immoral content’. The message was clear: you can’t use technology to date people, but you can use it to support and encourage violence against those who you consider anti-Pakistan, anti-Muslim. This is why filmmaker Arafat Mazhar’s new animated film,
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The creator of an animated film on blasphemy in Pakistan is hoping it will prompt discussion on tolerance at a time that rights advocates say hate speech on social media is increasingly triggering violence.
The short film
Swipe is about a boy obsessed with a hypothetical smartphone app that allows people to vote on whether someone should be killed for blasphemy and offers a glimpse of a stark future of what rights groups say is a worrisome present. The screen is what alienates people and what they say through a screen they probably wouldn’t say to another person in front of them,” Arafat Mazhar, the director of the 14-minute animated film, told Reuters.