Bulk Collection (2022)

Bulk Collectiona euphemism for mass surveillanceis a filmessay and audio commentary that chronicles the hegemonic condition of algorithmic monoculture A combination of shot footage and found audio BULK COLLECTION was filmed on a Iphone 8 over a two year period It is a diary and time capsule of digital gentrificationa New York City of ubiquitous mega construction sites constant demolition and the socioeconomic fallout of the COVID regime The construction of the massive new Downtown home of Disneys 650million dollars headquarters at 4 Hudson Squarewhich Masha Tupitsyn filmed for over a yearthe COVID19 breakout in spring 2020 and the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 all coalesce into a temporal record of the cultural wreckage of a physical world that was destroyed because no one was paying attention