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Jacob Gaboury Quoted in The International Business Times on Virtual Plotting

14 Jun, 2018

Jacob Gaboury Quoted in The International Business Times on Virtual Plotting

An article in the The International Business Times looks into virtual plotting, a new type of film wating experience that will have movies fine-tuned according to each viewer's "brainwaves." Jacob Gaboury weighs in on the concept.

From the article:

In fact, there is already such an experimental 27-minute movie called 'The Moment' that is set to be screened at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival in June, reports the MIT Technology Review. The film's plot follows a future where there exists a global network of brain to computer links. Using these links, the powers that be allow complete distribution of information, as well as total surveillance of every human's thoughts.

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"Often, you get bogged down in telling stories in a particular way in the cinema, so it could be interesting to see how that would progress from a director's perspective," says Jacob Gaboury, an assistant professor of film and media at the University of California, Berkeley.

Read the article here.