Cloud Gate 2

Through a mercurial collage of found footage desktop screen capture and images captured by the filmmaker on her pilgrimage to the Cloud Gate aka The Bean Chicagos only mustsee monument one year after her grandmothers passing Cloud Gate 2 is a meditation on the architecture and technology of memory The film unveils and deconstructs the ways we try to store and optimize memory through monuments photographs legal depositions high security data centers and notions of heaven itself making for a critical reflection of the Cloud in all its forms Addressed as a letter to a longlost friend Cloud Gate 2 reverseengineers the physical and spiritual structures of memorythe unending loop between seeing remembering and knowingand the function of images within this cycle