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Strange, short, and supercool
Experimental films are often just eye candy - nice to look at, short on substance. But Brit moviemaker Richard Fenwick's digital video series, RND# - for "random number" - is something you can really bite into.
His 100-episode project (7 of which are in the can) is an attempt to understand how technology affects our lives and, depending on your interpretation, how it dismantles or sustains us.
The latest 90-second installment, 23 Content Provider, mixes hyperkinetic computer-generated graphics and video. Its linear plot follows a blinking digital transmission from satellite to television, where the mishmash of animated blueprints morphs into a clip from a bizarre English soap opera.
While RND# lives up to its name (the episodes are being released out of sequence, for example), the series will come together in six or so years when it's finally complete.
View online at www.ideo.com/rnd.
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