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History as Hypnosis (2023)
Short | Short, Sci-Fi

History as Hypnosis (2023)

Short | Short, Sci-Fi

A speculative road film that unfolds through cultural memory of the US war in Vietnam, history as hypnosis follows three women, recently reprogrammed by an artificial intelligence that has wiped all traces of their previous lives, as they ...See moreA speculative road film that unfolds through cultural memory of the US war in Vietnam, history as hypnosis follows three women, recently reprogrammed by an artificial intelligence that has wiped all traces of their previous lives, as they journey through an uncanny desert landscape to a nearby metropolis. In director Alison Nguyen's hands, these figures without memory or history become a cinematic use case for themes of alienation, assimilation, and refusal. Freely combining genre, fact, and fiction, the film draws on its Southern California locations' postmodern glass facades, mimetic architecture, and roadside infrastructure-markers of car culture's entanglement with American expansionism and cinema history alike-to uncover the more ineffable links between collective consciousness and the Cold War military-industrial complex. Written by Sophie Cavuloucos, Assistant Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Stasia Bannikova Actress Actress See fewer	In the Garden: An Anton Chekhov Story (2024)
Andrea Clinton Actress Actress See fewer	Hey (2011)
Eliot Actor Actor See fewer	Dhar Mann (2018)
Alison Nguyen Actress Actress See fewer	Aisle 9
Moriah Sittner Actress Actress See fewer	Metanoia (2020)