A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX
This film explores SIMULATION THEORY and how the idea that this world might not be entirely real is as old as Plato’s Republic and as current as Elon Musk’s twitter feed.
“With his latest film, A Glitch In The Matrix, Ascher returns with maybe his most accomplished and provocative film yet, a rumination on one of the more confounding and strangely enthralling conspiracy theories around: simulation theory.”
“Fascinating, mind-expanding, infuriating and bewildering, this is a bracingly ambitious documentary which embraces the artificiality of the computer generated animation which constitutes a large part of its approach.”
“Mixing anecdotal evidence with that of respected experts, A Glitch in the Matrix is the kind of doc where just when you think you've got it figured out, it pulls the rug right out from underneath you.”
“A compellingly out-there look at the possibility that we're all avatars in a game we can't comprehend.”
A Glitch in the Matrix, for all its digital constraints, is deliriously alive and expansive as well as riveting. It’s stuffed with ideas and stories, and it builds — amid its crowded latticework of potentially mind-melting theories — toward the kind of emotional conclusion one would not expect from a movie so immersed in abstract thought.
- Vulture
about the SHOW: Are we in fact living in a simulation? This is the question postulated, wrestled with, and ultimately argued for in the latest provocation from acclaimed documentary stylist Rodney Ascher (Room 237, The Nightmare) through archival footage, compelling interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars, and a collection of cases from some of our most iconoclastic figures in contemporary culture. Using a noted speech from Philip K. Dick as a jumping-off point, Ascher's pointed exploration of the great existential question dives deep into the rabbit hole of conspiracy theory, scientific explanation and philosophical musings, leaving no stone unturned in his pursuit of proving the unprovable. Adept at exposing the thoughts of this country's obsessives, Ascher gives voice to the true believers, always with an open mind, and always ready to trust. Listen long enough, and through this highly entertaining and prescient journey for the truth, you too may be ready to wonder if it is not so ridiculous to assume that what we're living through can't possibly be real.—Landon Zackheim
Director Rodney Ascher
Producer Ross M. Dinerstein
Executive Producers Colin Frederick, Rodney Ascher, Ross Girard, David Carrico, Adam Paulsen
Co-Executive Producers Tim Kirk, Rebecca Evans, Neil Tabatznik, Robin Smith
Co-Producer Tyler Glodt
Animation Mindbomb Films, with Lorenzo, and Davy Force
Music Jonathan Snipes
Editor Rodney Ascher
Co-Editor Rachel Tejada
Character Designer Chris Burnham
