Disconnected
Three Carleton College (Minnesota) students chose to unplug for one month as an experiment for a documentary film class.
Andrew, Caitlin, and Chel have never lived in a time without computers and must now navigate through a world where academic assignments, work-related tasks and, most scary of all, social interactions must be approached without the aid of hard drives, memory chips or software. How will they get their work done? Will they cheat? Who will survive the longest?
From mastering the intricacies of a typewriter to re-discovering the simple pleasures of a face-to-face conversation, “Disconnected” follows the students through the ups and downs of their “digital detox.”
About the Filmmaker
Melody Gilbert is an award-winning independent documentary filmmaker who has directed and produced stories for film and television for more than 20 years. The Documentary Channel calls her “one of the most fearless filmmakers in contemporary documentary cinema.” She has made five independent feature-length documentaries in the past seven years, including “Disconnected” in 2008. All of her films have screened at major film festivals, in theaters and on television worldwide, including the Sundance Channel and on dozens of television networks internationally such as TF5 (France), YLE (Finland), RTL (Germany) and more.
Gilbert produces, directs and shoots (and sometimes edits) all of her films. As an executive producer and professor at Carleton College, she worked with film students to create the documentary “Disconnected,” now airing on Halogen.
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