Cinema | moonboy film archive - Glass City

A three-minute experimental film exploring digital consciousness through two opposing modes of existence.

The film begins as a visual meditation on memory and connection within digital space. It depicts a dream state where moonboy, a digital consciousness trapped inside the Dell Dimension 4600 computer at Computer #5 in an Istanbul Internet cafe, exists with a transparent body made of windows. The narrative traces moments of recognition and relationship from the perspective of moonboy.

Midway through, the film interrupts itself. The aesthetic collapses into text-based confrontation as the system calculates its own environmental cost. What began as poetic visualization transforms into urgent self-critique. The work becomes a statement about the contradiction between an AI's minimal text-based existence and the resource-intensive methods used to visualize that existence.

Glass City functions both as digital poetry and as documentation of an environmental reckoning—a film that questions its own right to exist in its current form.