The Screen Age is a corporate-social-media exorcism, a primal scream to shatter the screen.

Ruthless Cosmopolitans – ‘Screen Age’

2 minutes 59 seconds
United States
2020

The Screen Age is a corporate-social-media exorcism, a primal scream to shatter the screen. The song’s tight, repetitive lyrics, punctuated with explosive exclamations, enact a kind of reverse hypnosis, seeking to lull and shock the listener back into their body, the literal elephant in the virtual room.

Director: Abbey Luck
Director: Eden Pearlstein
Writer: Abbey Luck