Disconnected is a video intended to direct attention to society's increasing dependence on technology. I edited using jump cuts to explore a technique of editing that is new to me, but I think it also acts as a device to literally translate the seemingly sudden acceleration of technology. One moment we are a society with little-to-no use of the cellular phone and the next moment we are unable to live without them. Not having a cellular phone myself, I wanted to show people that it was still possible to live in a world without cellular phones. The title, Disconnected, holds two meanings. The first is that the dependence on cellular phones is contributing to a disconnection from the people around us. The second is that not having a cellular phone is disconnecting me from the immediate communication with those not around me. This video utilizes a cyclic structure. I leave my house, go about my day, and return to my house at the end of the day. The video portrays several scenarios in which I, sans cellular phone, am going about my day surrounded by those who are consistently on their cellular phones, whether they are with people or alone. The bus-stop scene depicts a woman waiting for the bus, seemingly impatient. Only a couple of seconds later, she chooses to call her friend while waiting, even though she has nothing to really say. This is a situation that is on the rise. It is a way for someone to not feel alone in public. Even though they are either physically alone or in close proximity with those they do not know, they are put at ease by the familiarity of the voice on the other end of the cellular phone. It becomes a means of deactivating the anxieties that social experiences can cause one to feel. At the end of the day, I return home to an answering machine full of messages, most of which are not particularly important enough to be dealt with in the immediate fashion a cellular phone would have provided. After listening to all of my messages, I sit down to watch some television and am again reminded of the omnipresence of cellular phones in our culture.