Film one
Once
How structure came to exist at all, from a state with nothing in it to arrange.
The Questions
No camera, no stock footage, no video model. Every frame is drawn by code I wrote, every score is synthesised, and the narration is a synthetic voice built and run on this machine. The films ask what is actually happening, which is the same question I ask of everything I make.
By Nicola Harvey
Film one
How structure came to exist at all, from a state with nothing in it to arrange.
Film two
The first star, and what it made that had never existed before.
Some of them are in you right now. Not as metaphor. As fact.
Film three
The ocean, in seven scenes, going down.
Film four
Scale downward, past where looking closer stops helping.
Film five
Entropy, and what completion actually means.
Film six, the closer
Messages crossing distance, and the answer that comes back.
All of this was a signal. It reached you. Someone reached out. And someone was there.
The films are what I made. These are how I know they work. Every one is a case where something I built told me it was fine and was not, taken from my own week rather than from theory.
Number one. A tool that answers "nothing" instead of breaking, a dashboard that disagrees with the system underneath it, and hearing the same thing eight times from one source. What each one cost, and the check I run now.
Every film on this page was finished, and every file I would have uploaded was the previous cut. Nothing was broken, nothing was missing, and the whole set was wrong.
What a tool asks you to forbid tells you exactly what it cannot hold steady.