This extract of Untitled Reality questions whether constructing digital realities and simulations is a form of insanity. Many “schizophrenics” are diagnosed because they interact in realities different from the “real world,” yet this same quality could be said of many storytellers, writers, and artists.
Extracts of vintage footage from mental asylums are cut with fictionalized talking-head interviews of two video artists who interrogate what it means to “go crazy,” and why we fear it.