Sticky Notes
2026 · 7m · United Kingdom
Directed by Trim Lamba
Genres: drama, experimental, mystery
Tones: contemplative, dark
Told entirely through the iPhone Notes app and a synthesized voice-over, the film follows a man who buys a second-hand iPhone and discovers thousands of notes and doodles left by its former owner. As the fragments accumulate, they cohere into an intimate portrait of a mind coming apart, implicating the viewer in a slow-rolling invasion of privacy.
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The scouts
A film told entirely through iPhone Notes and a robot voice should be insufferable, but Lamba weaponizes the constraint into something genuinely unsettling—turning the most banal interface of our lives into a confessional booth for a stranger's psychosis, and making us complicit voyeurs the whole time.
The formal precision here is undeniable: the Notes app as a found-object found-footage lineage, the synthesized voice as a deliberate estrangement device that echoes experimental cinema's long conversation with technology and mediation, each fragment accumulating with the rigor of a Bresson or Kiarostami.
The decision to let the fragments themselves—the doodles, the typos, the escalating incoherence—carry narrative weight rather than a conventional voiceover is what elevates this from a clever premise into something genuinely haunting; every fragment choice does the work of ten lines of dialogue.
Reviews
Sticky Notes is a delightfully unnerving new film from Lamba. The result is a formally fascinating urban legend that implicates its audience in a slow-rolling invasion of privacy.