A Room Without Before

‘A Room Without Before’ is a phrase of my own making, and refers to a nostalgic remembrance of a world that existed prior to digitalization. The difference between entering a room then and now is that today it requires a conscious negation, an active refusal of an absence of a device. The screen has become the default condition against which non-digital space must be deliberately carved out. It cannot be escaped. 
The film unfolds as an abstract navigation through a limbo of fragmented and artificial representations, where a silhouetted protagonist is navigating through an archive of simulations, alternately fleeing and approaching an environment that he never chose, never asked for, yet is expected to trust blindly. Through shifting surroundings, this visual meditation reveals the circular nature of a simulated existence, where even apparent exits lead back to either your own or someone else’s screen.