The phone has quietly become one of cinema’s most radical tools. Between the immediacy of handheld capture and the grandeur of the big screen, a new language of storytelling is emerging; one that collapses distance between filmmaker and audience. What was once thought of as small now carries its own scale, shifting how we experience narrative itself.
During this September's Berlin Art Week, filmmaker Gia Coppola will premiere her latest artfilm EDIE—a hypnotic urban vignette that reframes Los Angeles through the lens of movement, repetition, and memory.
Shot as one continuous side-on tracking sequence, the film follows its protagonist, EDIE, through a stream of city streets, holding her in sharp focus while the sprawl of life slides past. Across from her, a parallel shot unfolds with no central figure, creating a visual duet that recalls Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip. The effect is at once intimate and expansive: a love letter to cinema’s ability to capture stillness inside chaos.
The project also speaks to something larger. Coppola, part of a generation of directors who move fluidly between traditional filmmaking and mobile-first capture, is expanding her own language of storytelling. The work was made possible, in part, by the Google Pixel 10 Pro. Throughout the film's production, the phone slipped naturally into her process, offering the freedom to experiment with spontaneity while holding onto the polish of craft. The production represents the latest chapter in the ways in which new tools shift creative possibility.
Cinema is no longer confined to the theater. With EDIE, filmed entirely with a Google Pixel, Gia Coppola explores the charged space between mobile immediacy and cinematic tradition. The result gestures toward a new way of seeing—one that treats scale not as limitation, but as creative tension.
In the lead-up to the premiere, keep an eye on our channels for updates, with the full film experience dropping on our site soon.
