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Ran Bensimon

With an addiction to screens and sex, a young man goes on a search throughout Jerusalem, looking for a mystery girl whom he been in contact with only through digital means. He uses a radar-based dating app game to track her down hoping to fulfill his sexual desires in real life. He finds her in an arcade and loses a racing game to her, failing to get what he came for he falls back into the screen again, unsuccessfully looking for another human connection online. Drawn even more into the emptiness he was trying to relief from, he finds underwater as the only dimension where he can be at ease from the never-ending search, while being disconnected from any screen. However, with the grid already embedded deep into him, glitches from the digital world are starting to blend into his reality, taking him deeper into the code, into the condensed temporal space where virtual relationships are formed. As he reborn out of the water he forms his new identity and avatar continuing his nocturnal journey and blurring the line between reality and virtual reality.

2018, 15 min, Director: Ran Bensimon, Cast: Ran Bensimon, Asaf Bensimon, Tal Amoyal, Tomer Achdut Production: Ran Bensimon


Tags: Experimental Video  Video Art  Gaming  Virtual Reality  Augmented Reality  Extended Reality  Dating App 

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