Virtual Memory

The plot

As we are confronted with the receding dominance of analog image making and entering a new era in the evolution of digital media, our experience of images and information has become increasingly intangible. One part history and one part poetry, Virtual Memory is a meditation on the essence of mechanical image-making and its impact on human consciousness, from the physical process of photography and film, to the alternate universe created by computers and virtual reality. Using a compilation of found material, the film bids a kind of fond farewell to the 20th century.

Once there was a time when images were made from head to hand.

Devices came into being which allowed the chemical capture of light.

Persistence of vision, motion.

Electrical capture of light. Distribution and broadcast, reception with the set.

Computers - the pixel - a fraction of light - more like pointillism, a comic.

The speed, multiplicity of transmission - active viewership. 

The generation of synthetic images to replicate the real, not necessarily in terms of realism of representation, but in terms of realism in interaction.

Interaction, an extension of active viewing. Randomness increases.

Screen being replaced by an immersive experience. Projection of a holographic image.

Virtual becomes a replacement space.

• Age Rating General (12 and under)
• Running time 00:22:43 mins



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