Kyle Mangione-Smith

San Zokyo—a 1080p metropolis running at 30 frames per second, 15 minutes into the future and 10 years in the past. As a young hacker challenges the corporation behind Meme—a drug that mines users’ psyches to deliver personalized psychedelic trips and hyper-targeted ads—intersecting stories unfold in strange, fractured rhythms.

In the near future, criminals are forced to act in art movies instead of going to jail. Ten years later, a group of theatre students attempt to recreate one of these films.