The director of Creative Control explains his augmented reality nightmare
Just as Sundance has its coming-of-age stories, the paranoid tech parable is beginning to emerge as a newly dominant “SXSW movie.” It makes sense: with an audience that crosses over so heavily with the digital community, SXSW Film is an eager, receptive audience for your would-be Black Mirror episode.
Benjamin Dickinson’s Creative Control, which appropriately enough started as a Kickstarter campaign, has all the elements of a juicy near-future nightmare: a potentially life-altering gadget, an anxiety-ridden protagonist who all too easily becomes addicted to it, and a sexual obsession that’s only exacerbated by it. But Creative Control, with its dreamy black-and-white cinematography and its knowing send-up of the Brooklyn creatives on…
Source:: The Verge
