![]() “Obsolescence remains the repressed of innovation, and as past information is encoded in defunct systems, how will the past be preserved? Translation (from the Latin 'translatio', to bear across) is a journey, not instantaneous transmission, and these travels of re-encoding, transcription and compression re-mark their info-passengers with the codes of the present. The work was inspired by Lev Manovich's text “Cinema by Numbers”, as well as “The Deciphering of Linear B" by linguist/archaeologist John Chadwick. It used discarded 35mm movie film from the German UFA as a medium to read and write 8-bit binary code data with a hole-punch system. 'Fragments' gives us Alex (Connor Jessup), a fed up boy who works as a lion mascot and dates an open minded nice girl who feels the urge to encourage her boyfriend to explore his sexuality with another guy - she senses some gay vibe coming from him and shes totally okay with that. Zuse Strip is named after Konrad Zuse’s first digital computer. Cocooned in her apartment above the vibrant city, Susana opens up to him. ![]() When a bomb in the city of Medellín nearly kills them, Rodrigo and Susana surrender to their attraction and fall into each other’s arms. Cinema transforms into a three-dimensional landscape-utilizing data that is based on an archaeological misinterpretation. Rodrigo, a piano-tuner and former composer fallen on hard times, begins a love affair with the soon-to-be-married Susana. His attacks on Spielberg are painful and un- fair. ![]() This work is a correspondence of two information fragments of different origins and times that met by accident. Now that history ( his as well as ours ) has dis- appeared from his mind. A piece of movie film has survived the forthcoming Ice Age and is discovered by Venusian scientists-5000 years from now.
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