What if your brain couldn't tell where the internet ends and you begin?
20 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestIn 2079 the birth of the brainwave instrument BrainStation triggered the fourth industrial revolution. Mankind has ushered in a brand new era-the “virtual cyber age”. Through the use of a BrainStation, people can connect to an all encompassing cyber world. This virtual world is constructed like a neural network and the entire system is controlled and dispatched by the master brain Watson. However, over time issues are starting to surface: many people can't distinguish between virtual and reality, leading to psychosis and long-term addiction to the virtual world.
Visual Effects
Neural network architecture as actual visual poetry
Writing
Watson as god-computer villain hits different
Direction
Ming Ji blurs virtual/reality until you question your own screen
Creator
Ming Ji
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
BrainStation directly references China's real social credit systems and gaming addiction clinics, making the dystopia uncomfortably adjacent.
Director Ming Ji storyboarded the neural network sequences while recovering from VR-induced motion sickness — method suffering.
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