1-channel film, sound
full HD, 16:9
3:42 min
Our world is an inexplicable place that we constantly use to search for answers to the existential questions.
What is the meaning of life?
Is there even a reason why I am here?
Who or what exactly am I, if I exist at all?
Each of us sees themselves as omnipresent in their own reality, but at the same time it’s this exact observation that makes us as separate individuals insignificant to the bigger picture. In the new digital age, it seems like humanity is trying to escape this frightening nihilism by uploading itself into the virtual space as indestructible data files. But even this attempt of achieving a certain immortality by displaying a digital, curated version of oneself fails at the destiny of an inevitable apocalypse of both the physical and the second, digital world, which will one day go down together with everything that we are and aren’t.
(null) is an audiovisual translation of contemporary existential questions and the overwhelming identity crisis of the modern age. Screenshots and screen recordings of various websites, QR codes, memes and GIFs—consisting entirely of digital footage, it explores the conflicted perspectives between digital nihilism and post-ironic god complex, reflecting the cryptic contemplation on our desperate search for a purpose.
(2023)