Hailed by Stephen Fry, admired by Kate Bush, Tim Arnold is the fearless independent artist exposing Big Tech’s impact on mental health. His nationally acclaimed album Super Connected was originally banned by streaming platforms—until Tim launched a petition, won, and forced them to release it.
Now, his unreleased feature-length film drama that predicted the smartphone crisis, when it was made six years ago, will be screened for the first time this year, with over 100 schools in the UK requesting it.
With sound design by Radiohead producer Jim Warren, the ‘Super Connected – Come To Life Tour’ hits theatres, schools and cinemas this May, in an electrifying live experience that fuses together the album and film drama in a multimedia exposé of how tech companies fuel digital addiction in families.
With a career spanning 26 albums released independently with no corporate backing, Tim is taking on the tech billionaires who profit from digital dependency.
Based on the true story of a teenager’s addiction to social media, Tim directed the feature-length film in 2019, with narration from Stephen Fry and SFX from the Harry Potter team. Completed during the early days of the pandemic, it was shelved during the lockdowns, when our dependence on screens made it impossible to release a film that criticised their dangers. Now, in 2025, after the success of Netflix’s Adolescence, the film’s warning about the dangers of screen-use and social media arrives at a time when its message has never been more urgent.
Praised as “ground-breaking” by The Times, the live events also offer post-show ‘Screenless Socials’—where parents share and reflect on raising children in the digital age, while in a smartphone-free space. Actress Kate Alderton, who stars in the film and directs the live events, said “The result is a dialogue between Tim, the film and us as the audience, as we journey through the complex relationships we have with our screens, our desire to be watched, to hide, and to be seen.”
Super Connected tells the story of one family’s struggle to navigate life on their side of the screens while Big Tech profits on the other. The film will be screened exclusively on the tour and is not available online.
Tim Arnold said, “Big Tech’s biggest deception is that their services make us come to life. But the truth is we, as human beings, together, make each other come to life. And this tour is to help us remember that.”
SUPER CONNECTED TOUR DATES 2025
2nd May – Belfast The Crescent Arts Centre (with Smartphone Free Childhood Northern Ireland)
6th June – London The Cockpit Theatre
17th Sept – Petersfield Bedales School
26th Sept – North London Phoenix Cinema (film screening only)
3rd Oct – Bath Chapel Arts Centre
16th Oct – Reading The Biscuit Factory
17th Oct – Swansea Taliesin Theatre
22nd Oct – Liverpool Unity Theatre
24th Oct – Edinburgh Pleasance Theatre
LINK for Tickets: https://superconnected.technology/superconnectedlive/
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