Comfort Film Presents

All the Gifts by Gretchen Hasse

It’s not like we can escape technology. We have to live with it, whether we understand it or not. I have lived a relatively long time, and it amazes me to think how I currently depend on technology that didn’t exist even a short while ago. Sometimes I can barely remember what it was like before, with landlines, paper maps, and no internet.

Is my brain changing? I hope so.

My body has been enhanced by technology. I am vaguely bionic. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be alive without some fairly recent technological advances. So that tech? It’s okay.

The other tech though – the stuff that feels like it’s reaching inside our brains and scooping out the best parts for itself – I don’t know what to do with that. I’m not sure how to understand it.

All the Gifts is an acknowledgment of what I owe to tech, what I hope it might do, and what I fear from it. It’s all bound together.

https://gretchenhasse.com

Media Digital Projection

Video Installation

Runtime 3 minutes

Free

Programmed for Comfort Station by Raul Benitez, Emily Perez, Mat Tapey and Luna Lux.