In the late sixties, a psychiatrist in the American mid-west theorized that the human mind could be treated like videotape, that consciousness could be modulated, erased, rerecorded, and even transmitted through pulses of electricity. This is the story of that clinic, but also the story of the video archive as it moves through new historical, aesthetic and technological eras, as the lives of it captured are again remediated, transformed, and reanimated in imagined futures.

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À la fin des années 1960, un psychiatre du Midwest américain développa la théorie selon laquelle l’esprit humain pouvait être traité comme une bande vidéo : la conscience pourrait être modulée, effacée, réenregistrée, voire transmise au moyen d’impulsions électriques.

Ce film raconte l’histoire de cette clinique, mais aussi celle d’une archive vidéo traversant de nouvelles époques historiques, esthétiques et technologiques. À mesure que les vies qu’elle a capturées sont remédiatisées, transformées et réanimées dans des futurs imaginés, le film interroge les métamorphoses de la mémoire, de l’image et des récits qu’elles portent.

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In the late sixties, a psychiatrist in the American mid-west theorized that the human mind could be treated like videotape, that consciousness could be modulated, erased, rerecorded, and even transmitted through pulses of electricity. This is the story of that clinic, but also the story of the video archive as it moves through new historical, aesthetic and technological eras, as the lives of it captured are again remediated, transformed, and reanimated in imagined futures.

Coming Soon