Synopsis
What if being seen was the only thing keeping you alive? What if you had to film yourself every second, or disappear?
Liminal is a dissociative self-surveillance horror, exploring how we haunt ourselves with images of an unattainable future and a fake version of ourselves we've been sold. We live in an attention-based economy, and we are the products. The internet, with its false promises of prosperity, popularity and belonging, can feel like both a refuge and a coffin. The endless feed offers solace via distraction and dopamine, but our attention is commodified. We are manipulated, bought and sold online, as our minds are boiled alive in the glow of constant stimuli, pulling us deeper into a labyrinth of addiction, loneliness and isolation.
Online, the line between truth and performance fractures, forcing us to confront our inherent duality: our inner life and the version of ourselves we present to the world. This film is a meditation on identity, depersonalisation, and the fragility of 'reality' and 'truth' in an increasingly alienating, digital world. If no one is watching, do we still exist?