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Command, Control (working title) — in development

2025, approx. 20 mins | 4K | English with English Subtitles.











Supported by: V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Marginal, Bucharest, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, WET Film, Rotterdam




In a technofascist world, tech companies have proven to be more powerful than nation-states. In this short film and video installation we are taken on a ride through an unnamed place entirely governed by tech conglomerates, where programmers are the new priests. At the center of these powers is a data processing high tower that never turns off. Its operations remain unknown to many, while the narrator aims to reveal its veiled inner mechanics. How do the ideologies of big tech shape not just software, but entire social structures? What sort of borders are being amplified and who gets to be on which side? In which ways can this system be hacked? 



The video is filmed entirely after dawn, over 10 nights in Bucharest, Romania. Here, the night becomes a metaphor of visibility and invisibility; of the fact that whatever can be seen is a signifier of its own shadow, of that which cannot be seen. The viewer is traversing a world that could be a simulation, a video game, a dream or maybe all at once. 














Credits

in collaboration with Cezar Mocan

Producer:
Adela Bottcher (Idleeye Film)

Camera:
Ollie Paterson

Editing:
Geo Barcan

Game engine simulation:
Cezar Mocan

Script development:
Geo Barcan, Cezar Mocan

Romania producer:
Ioana Pop


 










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