Synopsis
We are increasingly outsourcing our memories to devices. We record our entire lives in the photos and videos we take with our smartphones. Yet what does the fact that all these wonderful memories are being stored in anonymous data warehouses mean? And what about the reality that all of these computer systems now know us better than we know ourselves? The spirit’s poetic voiceover, provided by Nancy Huston, elbows its way through the endless mounds of data, beautifully reporting on what it finds: fragments of a marriage proposal, a holiday – the moments we want to be able to recall at any cost. In the maze of data machines, the spirit also encounters the people who were once at the forefront of the digital revolution – the digital shades of a faroff past. In interviews, they talk about history and the underlying ideals of that revolution. The film is a poetic contemplation of time, memory and the nature of technology.