Leaving the 20th Century (1982)

Leaving the 20th Century is a compelling science fiction narrative of televisual timetravel via the electronic circuit and computer chip Almy dramatizes a threepart transitioncountdown departure arrivalto a technological future foreclosed and dehumanized The stylized visuals and ironic humor She left because there was nothing good on television belie the poignancy of Almys vision Applying computer graphics and digital effects to critique the manipulative mediating effects of technology Almy simulates the hyperreality of a futuristic landscape with no detail or points of reference a space without perspective or point of view No longer seduced by television or spectacle the subjects depart and are transported as objects arriving at a place where human relations and communication fail transmission is terminated the message is not received eaiorg