Your selfies live in a warehouse next to a highway in Virginia. Welcome to the void.
Traces the historical evolution of these structures that make-up “the cloud”, the physical repositories for the exponentially growing amount of human activity and communication taking form as digital data.
Cinematography
Bleak industrial beauty, servers as cathedrals
Direction
Two directors, one seamless paranoid vision
Sound
Humming server rooms become ambient dread
Director
Ryan S Jeffery
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title riffs on Marx's 'all that is solid melts into air,' updated for our vaporware age. The directors found it in a 1990s tech magazine.
Levin and Jeffery spent three years requesting site visits; most facilities granted exactly 15 minutes. The film's patient observation feels like stolen time.
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