my favorite software is being here

Director:

Alison Nguyen

Not Specified

2021

20'

A piece of speculative fiction, the video tells the story of a simulacral subaltern who has been created by an algorithm and raised by the Internet in isolation in a virtual void.

As she multitasks throughout the day, Andra8 is monitored and surveilled, finding herself overwhelmed by a web of global client demands. Something begins to trouble Andra8: her life depends on her compulsory consumption and output of human data – or so she’s been told. Andra8 explores the implications of such an existence, and what arises when one attempts to subvert them.

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