LOS ANGELES—What does technology look like five minutes in the future?
It’s a question that’s on a lot of artists’ minds lately. Whether it’s the Siri-like companion in Spike Jonze’s “Her,” a beautiful A.I. in Alex Garland’s “Ex Machina,” or the ability to instantly rewind and project memories in the “Black Mirror” episode of TV’s “The Entire History of You,” on nearly every screen there seems to be someone’s vision of the not-so-distant future—and usually a warning about how the purportedly convenient technologies are damaging our realities.
The latest entry is the bold indie “Creative Control,” about an ad exec who gets lost in the possibilities of Augmenta—an augmented reality system in a pair of glasses. In this highly stylized, “Google-utopia” world, Augmenta even looks cool. Think Warby Parker, not Google Glass or Microsoft HoloLens.
Director Ben Dickinson, who co-wrote and stars, didn’t have the VFX budget of some of his contemporaries, but what he did have was time to really home in on an idea, and a few friends in the tech world to help—including Vimeo co-creator Jake Lodwick.
