Social Media Presence
2023 · 11m · United States
Directed by Paul Davis
A woman documenting her day for her social media followers realizes someone is following her far more closely than her audience.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The stalker-mirrors-the-audience concept is conceptually clever but lands exactly where you'd expect it to—a neat inversion that doesn't actually disturb the form itself, just comments on it with a wink.
A taut exercise in contemporary horror that understands the grammar of surveillance cinema, though it cleaves closely to established thriller syntax rather than interrogating it.
The decision to let the social media documentation become the actual visual language—making the follower's presence felt through frame choices and edit rhythm rather than exposition—is what elevates this from premise to execution.