14.05 -
The New Anxiety
The 300+ year technologies built to capture, understand and connect the world - from maps through geostationary satellites to contemporary algorithms and big data collection - have been exposed as weapons-grade systems that pluralise reality and destabilise the present. How does living in this new anxious world feel, and how deep do these systems take root?
LIVE SCREENING: Dominic Gagnon, Going South (107')
+ post-screening Q&A with Dominic Gagnon
17th May, 20:00 BST
Join us in a watch-along of Dominic Gagnon's feature-length film 'Going South' followed by a Q&A with VIRTUALLYREALITY's artistic director Michael Brailey
(link to Q&A: https://youtu.be/ObtBolIx5PM).
"Going South is the second part of a tetralogy in which Dominic Gagnon intends to explore the cardinal points of the Internet in the post-truth era. Faithful to his credo of cinema without camera, he draws the material of his film from the world of YouTubers. Playing along with the absurd Flat Earth theory professed by contemporary gurus, he throws himself into a journey from the polar centre of the disc-shaped Earth towards the Tropics, the cold waters strewn with glaciers, and beyond to space [...] a mesmerising echo chamber in which everything is connected. Because everything is true on the Internet" (Céline Guénot)