Do You Know Where Your Friends Are Right Now?

‘Do you know where your friends are?’ is a mind bending animated music video that unflinchingly portrays the social media frenzy driving our current mental health crisis. Through meticulously hand drawn 2-D animation, the film propels us through glitchy, lo-fi, darkly absurd scenes of fixation, manipulation, distress and detachment. We envisage such scenes as an army of phone-addicted zombies, a maelstrom of memes and an attention harvesting factory. Director/animator Bea Labikova deeply connects the film’s visuals with the driving untamed sounds of experimental pop group Parade with a track off their new release “Lullabies After Storms And Floods”.