In a busy street, a computer voice asks for attention. A girl walks up. She stops in front of the computer, we see her head lit up in close-up and she starts a computer syvoice using her access code. Apparently this lets her speak to a number of people; we see her talking to the computer screen telling her personal story that she "has to get rid of somewhere", while behind her, people pass in the street. She tells that, since the power failure whereby her computer stopped, she has the feeling that she herself has 'stopped'. Through the images on the screen that we (and how many more?) see of her and while she talks to the screen, we see texts from a chat line and then images of computer games, of a laser game or animation game leader. The images which follow each other in a rapid tempo show sequentially and also superimposed over each other while the girl says that "things are happening so fast, I want to slow it down, it doesn't make sense". In this crowd of images and sounds technology seems to be dominant and the personal that has been placed in an impersonal environment is discussed in the terms of computer games. "They said I had died", but fortunately she is given a new life by the machine. These are machines that want to play and which, apparently, determine what happens. But she is just a passer-by in all this and when she continues, the computer tries to talk to another passing by. Please enter your access code ...
– Carla Hoekendijk
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Technical assistant Joe McKay, Thanks to Neil Goldberg
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