Emoji Is All We Have

“Emoji is all we have” is a short film by Studio Moniker reflecting on our current state of digital culture.

While technology is intended to help and support our human shortcomings, this film depicts a reversed hierarchy between man and machine. The man adapts to the dictating machine.
It thematises the safe harbour an emoji can be. Emotions are served to us as a binary unicode, stripped from doubt and complex layers. The struggling, imperfect human with its multilayered, subtle, facial expressions are mapped onto perfectly defined, simplified and frictionless icons.

For this project I composed a 20 minute electronic ambient piece to provide a soundtrack for the video installation that was on display at Het Nieuwe Instituut from October 2023 until May 2024.