Anthony Chen used a panel at the Far East Film Festival, Udine, on Saturday to deliver a sharp critique of social media’s effect on human attention, cinema culture and what he called the fundamental experience of being human – remarks that came a day after his film “We Are All Strangers,” the concluding chapter of his Singapore growing-up trilogy, opened the festival.
“I really think it’s hurting cinema culture, but I just don’t think it’s just hurting cinema culture,” Chen said. “I feel like it’s hurting generally our humanity.”
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