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[seekingferret]

Title of vid: Deeper
Vidder: seekingferret
Fandom: David Cronenberg's Existenz / Tom Clancy's Net Force
Music: Surfin' Slivovitz by the Andy Statman Trio
Responsible for lack of consistent title block from vid to vid: seekingferret
Summary: Oh shit, I have to write a summary of this? Fuck. Um... Existenz is very weird and I wanted to make a vid that was even weirder. The end.
Content notes: Cronenberg. I mean, pretty standard Cronenberg body horror.
Premiered at: Vividcon Vid Roulette Party 2018

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Last year I randomly gave out variety pack DVDs to interested vidders at Vividcon, with the goal of creating a vid from whatever random shit was on the DVD: Vid Roulette! This year we held the premieres party after Club Vivid and this was my premiere. I don't have a lot to say about it. It is a masterpiece, if I do say so myself.


The other Vid Roulette vid, diannelamerc's Spenser: The Judas Goat vid "Somebody's Watching Me", is also a masterpiece.

Somebody's Watching Me

Comments

[brainwane]

Thank you for this. I think it achieves its goal in bringing more randomness into the lives of everyone touched by Vid Roulette and this vid.

Existenz is very weird and I wanted to make a vid that was even weirder. The end.

What in Existenz still holds up well today?

[seekingferret]

What in Existenz still holds up well today?

I think that's a good question but not one that I am perhaps the best to answer, because I have heterodox opinions about the best ways to think about the encroachment of technology on human life. When people worry excessively about how technology is radically changing our brains, I tend to roll my eyes. Engineering problems have engineering solutions is my kind of mantra. I think of Existenz as textually interesting in its interest in stories within stories, and I delighted in adding an extra layer by way of Net Force, but I don't worry much about losing our sense of reality to virtual reality.

I think the things Existenz is worrying about in terms of technology imposing itself on bodies and brains is mostly stuff people are still worrying about, and the anxiety about corporations waging battles over who gets to control the technology that controls people still resonates, and particularly the way that that battle over who gets to control the technology IS ITSELF PART OF THE GAME is a clever and insightful idea. That resonates with the way we've been coopted so that people are, you know, Apple fanboys or whatever, cheering on the corporations that are using data to manipulate our lives.

[brainwane]

particularly the way that that battle over who gets to control the technology IS ITSELF PART OF THE GAME is a clever and insightful idea. That resonates with the way we've been coopted so that people are, you know, Apple fanboys or whatever, cheering on the corporations that are using data to manipulate our lives.

Egads, yeah.

Also, this reminds me to ask whether you watched Halt and Catch Fire.

[ambyr]

Man, it has been a long time since I watched Existenz. Turns out: still pretty weird.

[seekingferret]

Trufax

[ghost_lingering]

My new favorite way to watch this vid is that it's actually a Net Force vid and that Tom Clancy has a bunch of body horror that I don't remember from when I read his books as a kid.