MOVING IMAGE
Software Ideology (working title) — in post-production
2025, approx. 20 mins | 4K | English with English Subtitles.
Supported by: V2, Rotterdam & Marginal, Bucharest
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
Camera:
Ollie Paterson
Editing:
Geo Barcan
Voice over:
Geo Barcan
Executive producer:
Ioana Pop