Searching Eva

May 18 2020 N/A 1h 25m
Documentary

This is the tale of a young woman, growing up in the age of the internet and turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, allowing kids from all over the world to live their life through hers. Through her fragmented personalities you see the emergence of a new generation, in which the concept of a fixed identity has grown old.

Plot

When in 1996 Grateful Dead songwriter John Perry Barlow announced "a civilization of the spirit" with cyberspace - "may it be more humane and just than the world your governments have built so far" - F. was four years old. A few years later, the young Italian declared privacy an outdated concept, gave herself the name Eva and put her diary online on her first blog. Over the next few years, she became an Internet star, an underground icon of the blogging world, allowing anyone who wanted to participate in her maturing process. Today Eva is in her early twenties and oscillates between her "real" life as an anarchic vagabond, social marginal figure and "feminist" sex worker and the life of her Internet persona, iconised as the leading figure of the authentic.

Written by

Giorgia Malatrasi, Pia Hellenthal

Directed by

Pia Hellenthal

Production Countries

United States of America, Germany

Production Companies

RYOT Films, Vice Studios, ZDF, CORSO Film

Languages

Italiano, English, Deutsch

Awards

9 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
400
Average Rating
6 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA