FILTRATE is the culmination of a two year multi-disciplinary artistic collaboration, exploring digital connectivity and physical isolation. Shot guerilla style, entirely on iPhone 7, in the active metro system of Montréal, Quebec. The project took over two years to complete, with 43 days of underground shooting, six months of costume building, and over a year of post production. What began as just a short film, evolved into something much larger, combining guerrilla filmmaking, performance art, original costume, still photography, and urban exploration.

The digital spaces we inhabit today -from social networks and search engines to content channels and news sources- are increasingly personalized to serve our individual desires. With over 3 million Facebook posts, 500,000 Tweets, 500 hours of YouTube video, and 50,000 Instagram photos generated every minute, almost all digital content is filtered before it can be consumed at the individual level. This seemingly benign -and even necessary- filtration of the words we read, the music we listen to, and the images we see, is almost entirely automated; driven by complex algorithms that decide what content each user is fed, based on their personal data.