The experimental film ‘The dissoulution of content’ deals with the effect of the speed at which we consume information. How... Read More
The experimental film ‘The dissoulution of content’ deals with the effect of the speed at which we consume information. How does it feel to consume content that I barely grasp and immediately forget? Does the effect of the colour surface of image content differ significantly at this speed? What are the consequences of this form of numbing on our judgement?
On popular social media platforms, you jump from a violent war video to a funny cat and perhaps end up at a heartbreaking speech by a political activist. Content from short videos leaves an impression, but little information.
In this project, I also tried to fathom the mechanisms - in this case, those of our psyche. It seemed to me that we consume information like we consume food, but without digesting it. If little importance is attached to the content, it loses the power of its effect.At this rate, can we still differentiate which content should gain importance?
