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Because they are proposed, my relation to it is weird-it’s like too much access breaks it. Many things are available, and I know they are, but I don’t go see it. We have stuff going in front of us all the time, and there are filmmakers or artists I love. I thought the aspect of frustration was interesting to the work, because that’s part of the experience. I feel like the tone of it is silly, but I don’t think it’s stupid. I feel like it mirrors the absurdity of the way things are right now on the Internet and the absurdity of broadcasted information and fake news. I think it’s more interesting… Do you think it’s stupid? I find it interesting that you have people that can spend time on it as a cultural experience rather than swiping. So it reduces the audience that plays the game, but it augments the time people spend. Then, you get to experience it not with money but with a commitment to it-spending time. We thought it was more interesting to create something that frustrates. What interests me is that it’s a niche thing. What does the interactive nature of the website do for the message of the piece? So, it’s not about predicting, but the power of the images became really strange with COVID.

When we tried to write the script, we wanted to do something where everyone is on screens. But it doesn’t predict, because basically it was after SARS. It was funny when we looked at it, because it felt strange even to us. What does it feel like to have created a work that seems to have predicted many of the things that are happening in the world today? It's really interesting to create that weird distance. We wanted to play with as many figures as we could. In the second part, it becomes way more Baroque. When we wrote it, we wanted something goofy, between a soap opera and something Romanesque or theatrical, and so that’s how we placed the film. Can you talk a little about the inspiration for that?

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During Corona, people that knew it were saying, “Do you want to show it online?” I received text messages from people saying, “I feel like being in your movie or something.” I decided to find a way of doing it that would be a way to make a full image of the time, which means you have pop-ups with information, and you also create that working kind of model of the vision that works with that time.Ĭan you talk about your inspirations for the altered reality of this piece? There’s a sense of confusion and a dream-like aspect to it. So you moved it online because of the pandemic, or was it already online before? It disappeared, and we tried to re-edit it, but we didn’t find anything. At the time, it was one object, and the title was “Home is Whenever I’m With You.” We showed it as an installation, but I don’t know if the video meant much. So, it’s a project that was shot in 2014.

Can you talk a bit about your process and the path that the piece has taken to get where it is today on the internet?

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