Leaving the 20th Century

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Short / Experimental
USA, 1982, 10 min

Directed by:

Max Almy

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This experimental video, divided into three chapters, presents a cacotopic vision of society “dragging its feet” into the 21st century. Enter a dystopia where technology pervades the most intimate corners of the human mind and renders interpersonal contact obsolete, resulting in alienation, isolation, and extinction. The video’s bleak tone is underscored by primitive computer graphics and a shot featuring all white noise, in which the last traces of the human illusion are lost. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)

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