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Sisyphus 2.0 (2016)

Sisyphus 2.0 (2016)

7 min. - Experimental Short Movie - - 30.03.2017

Synopsis: A visualization of Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus, through the lens of surveillance cameras around the world.

Director: Luiza Pârvu, Toma Peiu

Writer: Toma Peiu

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Produced By

Root Films

Festivals, Awards

  1. 2017 - BIEFF - Best Romanian Director (Luiza Pârvu&Toma; Peiu)

Storyline

Drawing on Albert Camus’ eponymous text, Luiza Pârvu and Toma Peiu’s Sisyphus 2.0 is a visual compendium of humanity’s search for meaning. Made of real surveillance footage, the film assumes its perspective’s omniscience, beginning as a series of quotidian assemblages of ‘a day in a life’ of the global citizens, embraced by a voice-over retelling of the Sisyphus myth. With deep humanism and sensibility, Pârvu and Peiu question the meaning of the search, as man-made violence and natural cataclysms - the other side of humanity’s essential creative impulse - jolt the daily existence of the surveilled humans. In the end, faith overcomes fatalism, the search becomes the meaning itself, and the film’s closing, noble gesture, cradles us to the lullaby of hope. (Andrei Tănăsescu, BIEFF 2017)

Trivia

Luiza Pârvu & Toma Peiu about the film:
Video surveillance has penetrated virtually every space inhabited by humans. Tragedies, excitement, catastrophes, moments of bliss, and the everyday life of the common man are nowadays documented on an unprecedented scale. Countless hours are recorded daily in an endless narrative of the spectacle of human existence. The content is usually available to private eyes, and the universal meaning obscured by the apparent disconnect between the various individuals, spaces and activities recorded.
Made entirely out of surveillance footage available online, Sisyphus 2.0 is meant to mirror existentialist philosopher Albert Camus’ text, originally published in 1942, in present day’s reality. It is a bookmark we are trying to place, in an attempt to capture the particular mark of a certain moment in the evolution of the post-industrial era, doing our best not to obscure the timeless, tireless and resilient nature of the manifestations of human spirit. 
 

Website

https://rootfilms.org/movingimage/#/sisyphus20/
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