In the Course of Human Events (1997)

Directed by

Dominic Angerame

Country

United States

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The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This film uses footage of demolition in San Francisco after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to argue that urban development is inherently destructive. It presents the earthquake’s damage as just one more example of that destruction, set against the city’s famous landscape.

contemplativeobservationalbleakunsettlingslow-pacedreflectivevisually starkcynical

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