Inside the office is a super wide-angle security-camera-driven aesthetic. We wanted them to feel like they were being watched. We use remote camera heads a lot, so movements don’t feel human. In the outside world, everything is more human-operated. There’s definitely a surveillance vibe on the outside; it’s just much more old-school, like a ’70s... See more

Armed with a traditional film background, we faced a dilemma: shed the principles of our training to feed the algorithm's insatiable appetite for content, or hold fast to our ideals and risk missing out. Multiply output for likes and follows, or cultivate vision for something that seemed very distant, unpredictable, and way harder to reach. It was... See more

Scale jumps: macro (ants on skin) → tableau (horse & cake) → cosmic wide (sun dwarfs caravans). The disorientation does a lot of narrative work in a silent piece.

“The packaging of all moving images as equitable content “has created a situation in which everything is presented to the viewer on a level playing field, which sounds democratic but isn’t,” Scorsese continues. “If further viewing is ‘suggested’ by algorithms based on what you’ve already seen, and the suggestions are based only on subject matter or... See more