A Machine To See With is a film where you play the lead. You sign up online and hand over your mobile phone number. On the day, you receive an automated call giving you the address you need to go to. Once you arrive on your allotted street corner your phone rings. From there a series of instructions lead you through the city.
You are the lead in a heist movie; it’s all about you. As you move from hiding money inside a public lavatory, to meeting up with a partner in crime and onwards to the bank, the tension rises. It’s up to you to deal with the bank robbery and its aftermath.
The project is a Locative Cinema commission from the Sundance Film Festival, 01 San Jose Biennial and the Banff New Media Institute.
Credits:
Camerawork: Eric Schleicher at Filmerkid
Cast: Joe Beres, Ben Moren, Meredith Pearson, Tyler Stefanich
Edit and grading: John Hunter
Filmed at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, April 2011