I remember the first time I saw Rodney Ascher’s Room 237, a truly unsettling series of interconnected theories about all the meanings hidden in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. All of the disparate, ...
There are words, and many metaphors, one could use to describe simulation theory: the belief, popularized two decades ago by “The Matrix,” that the life we’re living — the people we know, the ...
If you've heard of simulation theory -- the idea that our entire universe could be running inside of some sort of extra-dimensional computer -- there's a good chance you encountered it from a high ...
Rodney Ascher's Sundance Midnight title uses cultural touchstones like "The Matrix" to answer the question: Is any of this real? Magnolia Pictures has released the official trailer for the Sundance ...
Sundance: "Room 237" director Rodney Ascher makes a strangely credible case that nothing around us is real. Rodney Ascher’s movies dwell on absurd theories until they start to make a weird kind of ...
Building his latest documentary around impossibly big questions, a cheeky ‘90s cyber aesthetic and the words of visionary author Philip K. Dick, director Rodney Ascher explores the labyrinthine ...
Director Rodney Ascher has an interesting approach to the documentary form. His 2012 film Room 237 explores fan theories and coded messages within Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, with its subjects ...
Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing ...
You are living in a simulation, and the simulation is glitching. Explore the virtual world, find glitches, fight zombies and break through the illusion. Bugs, bugs are everywhere... In his Steam ...