Beneath the Surface

If we grant gadgetry an ever-increasing role in the acquisition of data on our environment, how much will it begin to influence our own perspective on the world?Is the technology nothing more than a means of representing the world?Or have synthetically generated images long since become the blueprint for our own perceptions and memories?

In an age in which technology expands the horizons of possibility, film is an art form dedicated to testing the limits if human perception. So it should come as no surprise to us that movies have continued to voice the suspicion that life itself is nothing more than a brilliantly fabricated illusion.

─from "Best Movies of the 80s", p.13