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Holding Patterns

2024

A slow, thoughtful video essay that makes you notice how screens shape closeness and distance.

Directed by: Alexandra Juhasz
Genres: Documentary

Overview: A meditation on technologies of memory, with close attention paid to medium specificity, this installation considers how Zoom and other pandemic technologies composite onto screens, and also into rooms, flattening and deepening connection, attention, and care.

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Directed by: Alexandra Juhasz
Genres: Documentary

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: technology
memory
isolation
media
art
Places: home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	0
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Humour	1
Realism	9
Romance	0
Tension	2
Darkness	3
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	6

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