jim

jim

2017 · 9 min · Animation

jim is an exploration-based portrait of a found object. Jim assembled these floppy disks in the late 1990s with images and samples sourced from online chat rooms. How do you connect with someone you can’t see? That you don’t know? Can you get a sunburn from a computer screen? One short email conversation provides his name.

Directed by Sam Gurry

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