Debris Cinema

"Countless automated cameras dispersed throughout intercontinental shipping infrastructure continuously generate moving images, enabling planetary-scale computation to extend its perception. How might design research engage with this spatiotemporally expansive bank of films that exceeds human perceptual limits and narrative constraints?

Debris Cinema proposes an alternative filmmaking approach paired with an unconventional cinema screen. Through real-time editing and projection of perspectives transmitted from shorelines and cargo freighters, an ever-evolving film influenced by daylight cycles, weather conditions, streaming bitrates, and programmed camera movements probes the nature of planetary-scale machine vision. "