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Anderson, Joel N.
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Spring 2021
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2021
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Zola is a filmmaker who believes cinema has ultimately birthed meaning into life, as opposed to life birthing meaning into cinema. Zola believes that only through cinema are we able to fully experience the beauties the natural world has offered to us, and that filmmakers are the mediums that serve machinic God (the camera) and His version of paradise, 'archive'; an eternal life. These mediums deliver their Word to the humble sheep (the audience). When Zola receives a prognosis that she may have a degenerative eye disease that may ultimately lead to blindness, which, to her, would end her mediumship as filmmaker. Zola decides to intervene in her biological faultiness the only way she knows how, with machine.
This film attempts to illustrate a small corner of the discussion around the organic world and the inorganic materials that obstruct our connection to its natural and beautiful designs. Here we are 200 years post the industrial revolution and there's no turning back. Is it better to return to our organic and natural state of being leaving behind this technological sphere, or to fully submerge ourselves in the machine engorged world?
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