Isaac Goes

From this world to the next

A virtual love story set in Vancouver, New York, and the dying world of a massively multiplayer online role playing game.

A virtual love story set in Vancouver, New York, and the dying world of a massively multiplayer online role playing game.

Каким может быть мир после капитализма? Вслед за левыми философами-акселерационистами Ником Срничеком и Алексом Уильямсом, авторами утопического манифеста «Изобретая будущее», канадский экспериментальный режиссер Айзея Медина в своем втором полнометражном фильме пытается представить контуры грядущего общества: культурный и этический статус труда уничтожен, все человечество получает безусловный базовый доход, а сама возможность работать ограничена государством. Используя авангардный монтаж, восходящий к практикам Жана-Люка Годара и советских режиссеров 1920-х годов, Медина развивает революционные возможности цифрового кинематографа и взывает к активной зрительской позиции, без которой невозможны анализ ситуации, работа воображения и политическое действие.

All galaxies appear to be moving away from each other. Over large distances, the further an object moves away from any given vantage point, the more the light waves emanating from it are stretched out before they reach it - resulting in lower and lower frequencies as it continues along its course. Within the spectrum of visible light, red light possesses the lowest frequency, meaning the further into the distance an object strays, the redder it appears from our slice of space and time.

The latest installment in filmmaker Isaac Goes's series of journal films combining iPhone footage and sounds with images from movies. A diary penned with cinema.

A shot-for-shot in-camera recreation of an iPhone movie. Filmed over the course of 1 day from sunup to sundown. Constraint: Each individual shot in the iPhone cut (filmed and edited one month prior) was timed and each location mapped. Because the film was edited sequentially in-camera, physical movement through space was required in mimicking the cuts of the digital version - an unfolding of montage in real environments. The iPhone movie was constructed so as to form a map, the 16mm film is the traversing of the points plotted. Periodic shots of empty skies mark the passage of time through color. The film’s digital counterpart has been deleted.

Made in Shanghai 2014