Cécile B. Evans – Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen

The third part of the film program, which accompanies the exhibition Welcome Too Late, presents Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen from 2014 by American-Belgian artist Cécile B. Evans.

The film is narrated by the failed CGI rendering of a recently deceased actor, PHIL. In an intensification of so-called hyperlink cinema, the lives of a group of digital agents—render ghosts, spam bots, holograms—unfold across various settings, genres, and modes of representation.

Multiple storylines build, converge, and collapse around overarching ideas of existence without anatomy: the ways in which we live and work within the machine. Throughout, questions are raised about what it means to be materially conscious today and the rights of the personal data we release. Watch a trailer for the film.

Read more about the exhibition Welcome Too Late.