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Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033

Country: USA, Language: English, 29 mins

Archived Short Film Trailer: NOT YET REVIEWED | 2018
  • Director: Zach Blas
  • Writer: Zach Blas
  • Producer: Ali Roche

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Consisting of a queer science fiction film installation that includes live action and CGI, blown glass sculptures, and a single edition publication, Contra-Internet confronts the transformation of the internet into an instrument for state oppression and accelerated capitalism. Invoking a practice of utopian plagiarism, Contra-Internet appropriates queer and feminist methods to speculate on internet and network alternatives.

Jubilee 2033, the short film centerpiece, is a re-imagining of scenes from filmmaker Derek Jarman’s 1978 queer punk film Jubilee, starring Susanne Sachsse as Ayn Rand and Cassils as a contra-sexual, contra-internet AI prophet named Nootropix.

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Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033 trailer from Zach Blas on Vimeo.

Cast & Characters

Susanne Sachsse (Ayn Rand)
Dany Naierman (Alan Greenspan)
Lindsay Hicks (Joan Mitchell)
Fusako Shiotani (Azuma)
Raquel Gutiérrez (The Art Professor)
Cassils (Nootropix)