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SIANI FILM SHEDS LIGHT ON CELLPHONE DEPENDENCE    This column originally appeared on Wicked Local. Siani Film Sheds Light on Cell Phone Dependence by Jay Gillespie What is your relationship to your phone?   Media and social science Professor Joni Siani encourages you to consider the role that your cell phone plays in your day to day experience in her book Celling Your Soul: No App for Life and also her film, Celling Your Soul , which is set to premiere at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (617-734-2501) in Brookline on September 27 th .   Celling Your Soul follows a group of young adults who agree to put away their cell phones and restrict themselves from the internet for a one week digital cleanse as part of their final project in Professor Siani’s college class.   The effort is not a challenge to see if you can simply get by without the use of these modern technological conveniences.   The point of the digital cleanse is that it affords participants the opportunity to take a