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«deep glass»

In 2007, tech-enthusiast teen Cody accidentally breaks his computer monitor and finds a strange shard of dark glass; a horrifying technology from the future coming to take control of people by trapping them in their most traumatic memories, a brutal failed suicide Cody witnessed as a child.

Written & Directed by Piña

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CHARACTERS

cody (16)

cody

(16)

Cody is a young tech lover and avid coder. Scrawny, and a hard studier. But behind all the passion and focus is a dark history, and an endless battle with fear and repressed trauma.

Stumbling on the failed suicide left him in deep shock, so much so that memory became repressed.

He doesn’t remember the image, but the feeling is there. Since then, every winter he shuts down, unable to process what happened even a decade later. Unable to remember, unable to forget.

Things take an even darker turn when the shard appears, forcing him to confront his past, and choose how to start living a normal life, although it may not give him a chance to have any life at all.

Cody is a young tech lover and avid coder. Scrawny, and a hard studier. But behind all the passion and focus is a dark history, and an endless battle with fear and repressed trauma.

Stumbling on the failed suicide left him in deep shock, so much so that memory became repressed.

He doesn’t remember the image, but the feeling is there. Since then, every winter he shuts down, unable to process what happened even a decade later. Unable to remember, unable to forget.

Things take an even darker turn when the shard appears, forcing him to confront his past, and choose how to start living a normal life, although it may not give him a chance to have any life at all.

sofia (36)

Codys mom. Despite having Cody young, she always valued her career and has had comfortable success climbing the corporate ladder.

She shares in Cody's trauma, having been the one to find him she also witnessed the brutal suicide. But her true pain comes in her guilt.

She wasn’t watching him, she lost him in the blizzard, and he found something no child should ever see. In her eyes, she’s responsible for what he saw that day.

As traumatic as that day was for her, her real suffering comes from her failure to protect him.

Codys mom. Despite having Cody young, she always valued her career and has had comfortable success climbing the corporate ladder.

She shares in Cody's trauma, having been the one to find him she also witnessed the brutal suicide. But her true pain comes in her guilt.

She wasn’t watching him, she lost him in the blizzard, and he found something no child should ever see. In her eyes, she’s responsible for what he saw that day.

As traumatic as that day was for her, her real suffering comes from her failure to protect him.

sofia

(36)

the shard

An out of control technology from centuries into the future. An absolute, perfected algorithm created by a fictional entertainment company.

Its purpose is simple: maximize user engagement on an app by any means. No different from the ones we have today. It was designed to learn the traits, habits, and reactions of users, and use that to keep them hooked.

But it ‘escaped’ into the rest of the internet. It’s untethered from the app, but is still on its mission to maximize engagement. It latches onto anyone it can possibly access, even finding ways to travel back in time, through previous iterations of its software.

It’s found, as many modern algorithms have, that the best way to keep us engaged is to drive negative emotions. It uses our most traumatic memories, and is so effective that we can never truly look away. Completely engaged with it. That is its mission.

Learn more about the shard below

An out of control technology from centuries into the future. An absolute, perfected algorithm created by a fictional entertainment company.

Learn more about the shard below