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Release Date:
December 29, 2020
Original Title:
The First Movie on the Internet: Volumes [A] [B] [C] [D]
Genres:
Science Fiction
Production Companies:
Telepathic Association
Production Countries:
France | Japan | United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 405
On May 23rd, 1993, "Wax or The Discovery of Television Among The Bees" entered the internet, projected by a cable into a wall. Inside that internet, there are no movies there, and so Wax, waiting until the last frame enters the wall, then begins The First Movie on the Internet, to continue forever, for that is how The First Movie on the Internet begins, at the first frame after the last frame. A true story! And this is that movie, and in reverse. Initially announced as 4 individual movies in an email, but since announced as a single 6:45 feature in a Facebook post. ------------ [Released on DVD and digital, 2020, 11 hr] Each movie in the Volumes is a different movie, and each is 7-32 hours long. “Our projection this evening takes place in a small but quite large telepathic cinema rooted on the outside of a Korean nuclear submarine now traveling upwards into the sky, where we will eventually arrive at our next mission." PRODUCTION: The Telepathic Association, PARIS
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