Film 3: World Builder

The only thing clear for the majority of this film is that building worlds is a relatively straightforward affair. The material environment is created with ease and it comes alive as textures and colors are added to the world. It is then that we see that the man is creating a street in a down complete with dwellings. The man puts a particular focus on the flower and without the ending of the film available to us we might interpret this as a focus on the sentient over the inanimate. Perhaps an acknowledgment that there are some things - natural things - that cannot be replicated. When the woman emerges we are struck by the fact that she is most thrilled by her sensory experiences: feeling the sunlight, touching the balustrade, listening to the water and admiring the flower. Again, without the final interpretation we might think of this experience as one that has been lost in the artificial world of the future. The conclusion of the film - with the woman in a coma - suggests that the man values reality over simulation but that simulation is all that is available to him because of the woman's medical condition.