"Bliss Point" plunges us into the ever-accelerating rhythm of food supply and the emergence of new techno-capitalist processes. The film guides us from dark kitchens and food advertising sets to AI-managed warehouses—a delivery rider cycles across the city to a makeshift trailer where workers flip burgers. Algorithm-powered robots buzz through a sprawling grid of crates, and 3D printers stack layers of computer-generated data to produce food alternatives. Drawing from the concept of optimal palatability, Bliss Point reveals the entanglement of automation and human labour and how food's aesthetics and politics intersect. Together with "Future Foods" (2020) and "Agrilogistics" (2022), it completes a trilogy on scopic food regimes.
Pure film makes the vibrant and tactile realm sensually perceptible. This cinematic journey combines in-camera footage with rayographs, where the forest is directly transferred onto the film material. The result is a complex collage that skillfully connects traditional structural filmmaking with the urgent issue of the current climate crisis.
A girl's recollection about a boy named Moon.
A woman dreams of the American cryptographer Hal Finney. A major economic crisis affects the cryptocurrency market; tens of thousands of people are cryogenized and waiting for a better future. Are they suspended or falling into the void? What strange relationship do we have with the future?