On Eugene Kotlyarenko’s 0s & 1s

0s & 1s is a movie told in a visual language and at a pace familiar to any of us who’ve been staring at computer screens since we were tweens, a/s/l’ing strangers in Yahoo! checkers chat rooms and going through full-blown minesweeper phases. It’s a real-feeling representation of how we imagine our own mental lives to be, filtered through the screens of our devices, past and present.

I Quit My Job

I didn’t really make TV at my job, not much happened in TV news in general, and doing it in Japanese just made it lonelier. Key phrases in my reply: “most aggressively stupid,” “penned-in press areas with a camera for hours on end,” “doubt it’ll be any better,” “non-information.”