The Cancer of Time (Application)

How much time do we spend without looking at our emails on our phones? What do we do when we are not productive? Can we share a meal with family or friends without checking our messages? Are we able to stop looking at our phones at any given moment? These questions are at the heart of a very modern phenomenon: the inability to do nothing, the avoidance of idleness. The way the topic is handled is paradoxical: we use an application to think about how to respond to slowness and non-productivity, that is, how to praise wasting time… on a device that typically devours all of it. This playful, interactive tale, a true invitation to idleness, was incubated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in collaboration with the Open Documentary Lab, and is intended as a hybridisation of genres, on the fringes of game, application and animation.