0s & 1s
“The story is simple. James Pongo is a young Angeleno with a boring job and a ?girlfriend (trying to get that orthography off the ground: meme it, readers!) who never calls him back. He goes to a townie party out in Torrance with his HS friends, gets blotto, and wakes up to groggily discover his computer bag has gone missing. Thus bereaved, he sets out to track down the thief using only a list of the party-goers as his guide, and the film progresses episodically, hopping from house to house in search of the stuff.
0s & 1s is a movie told in a visual language and at a pace familiar to any of us who’ve been staring at computer screens since we were tweens, a/s/l’ing strangers in Yahoo! checkers chat rooms and going through full-blown minesweeper phases. It’s a real-feeling representation of how we imagine our own mental lives to be, filtered through the screens of our devices, past and present. I’m hesitant to get all grandiose, but, guys, it’s kind of our Ulysses.”
I wrote a review of Eugene Kotlyarenko’s virtual modernist movie, 0s & 1s, over at Thought Catalog. Read the rest of it, then go see the movie! Last chance for NY!
