Your webcam sees you. This film sees what your webcam refuses to remember.
Inside a computer a space-time is revealed in which image and sound become numbers and motion manifests as rhythm, flow and chaos. This tracking and integration experiment removes the superficial identity of video to detect kinetic disturbances in everyday environment.
Direction
Zárate weaponizes boredom into creeping dread
Sound
Numerical audio that makes silence feel monitored
Editing
Ruthless removal of human context
Director
Tomás Zárate
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a 2010s wave of 'forensic formalism' where artists used surveillance aesthetics to critique watching itself, predating mainstream conversations about algorithmic vision.
The 'shapeless tracking' technique references actual motion detection algorithms used in security systems — Zárate reverse-engineers commercial surveillance code to expose its eerie poetry.
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