A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Original Title:
Scraper
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 71
Scraper is a dank mixed-reality film-biome presented in six parts across 71mins. Each kaleidoscopic chapter is an interface for a folkless lore of Minimally Viable Knowledge: stories of procedural data extraction, and aggregation as a cultural logic. Together they explore a ‘connectionist mentality’; an implicit ideological code or intellectual spirit emerging across our platform feeds. Scraper's acid-pessimism traces a scorched history of excommunication, encryption, and ecstatic extraction; an ‘entropology’ of memetic redundancy, ecstatic resignation, and model collapse.
Director:
Dane Sutherland
Music:
Miedo Total
Sound Designer:
Miedo Total
Writer:
Confraternity of Neoflagellants
Missouri Williams
Dane Sutherland
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