What if humanity had to choose what to forget forever?
Alex Granados, an expert in Human-Machine Relations and former journalist, says goodbye to his wife, Erika, and travels to the headquarters of the Great Erasure Commission in Paris. There he is received by the president, Laura Schimmel, who gives him the most difficult job of his career: to prepare a report to decide what humanity should erase if alternative storage systems do not prosper. Alex and his collaborators, the Korean Lyn and the Nigerian Hasan, begin to interview experts from different disciplines to understand what they should keep. On a trip to England, Lyn is attacked by a group of analogists, who defend the disappearance of the digital world.
Writing
Dialogue that treats absurd premises with devastating sincerity.
Direction
Cózar's clinical framing makes bureaucracy feel genuinely menacing.
Director
Álvaro de Cózar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'analogist' movement mirrors real Luddite anxieties about digital preservation fragility, from Rothenberg's 'Digital Ephemerality' essays to contemporary fears about cloud storage collapse.
Director Álvaro de Cózar developed this for years as a podcast first, explaining the deliberate audio-design priority in key interview scenes.
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