Consider a world where all human communications are represented by numbers, a digital world. Imagine a future archaeologist finding a DV cassette from hundreds of years ago (a real found object, circa 2006). Imagine trying to decode this ancient digital object, codecs unknown, obsolete, hardware long lost.Crack the code? Available logarithms scan, databases compare, construct, deconstruct, reconstruct the artifact. 2006, the dawn of self-by-numbers, digitized identity. What human fragments, fugitive narratives, remain?What is paint-by-numbers history?Future anthropology or experiential documentary? Digital privacy or digital agora? Selfie or avantgarde visual jazz cinema?
Consider a world where all human communications are represented by numbers, a digital world. Imagine a future archaeologist finding a DV cassette from hundreds of years ago (a real found object, circa 2006). Imagine trying to decode this ancient digital object, codecs unknown, obsolete, hardware long lost.Crack the code? Available logarithms scan, databases compare, construct, deconstruct, reconstruct the artifact. 2006, the dawn of self-by-numbers, digitized identity. What human fragments, fugitive narratives, remain?What is paint-by-numbers history?Future anthropology or experiential documentary? Digital privacy or digital agora? Selfie or avantgarde visual jazz cinema?
Directors: Kirk Tougas
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Producers: Kirk Tougas
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Completion date: 05/04/2017
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Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Film color: Both
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