So Unreal
Schedule
Wed Jan 21 2026 at 08:00 pm to 09:45 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Dove Street South, BS2 8JD Bristol, United Kingdom | Bristol, EN
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Debbie Harry narrates this trance-inducing audiovisual romp through artificial intelligence, cyberspace and virtual reality in the cinema of the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. A documentary-meditation on film as a way and an instrument to cope with humanity’s euphoria, anxiety, fear and obsession with technology.Amanda Kramer's So Unreal is a cinephile's visual essay examining a canon of films that dared dream beyond the threshold of the real. Across a 20-year span, depictions of 'future shock' technologies grew in both frequency and complexity. Cinema in these years provided an outlet for humanity's intertwined anxieties, fears, and fantasies about the brave new frontiers looming ahead.
Narrated by Blondie icon Debbie Harry, So Unreal mines the substance and subtext of cyber-minded landmarks like Tron, Videodrome, Brainstorm, Terminator 2, Tetsuo, Lawnmower Man, Hackers, The Matrix, and dozens more. Soundtracked with deep cuts from the electronic underground, and styled with CGI-glitch FX, So Unreal maps the subcurrents of euphoria and dystopia simmering in the cinematic subconscious of the end of the 20th century.
"A cyberpunk nostalgia trip told in six parts, Kramer’s historical cultural break down is a film analysis portal akin to Morpheus’s red pill." – Sight and Sound
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