BULK COLLECTION trailer

Bulk Collection, 2022
3hr 07 min

"The story of our lifetime is how intentionally, by design, a number of institutions, both governmental and corporate, realized it was in their mutual interest to conceal their data collection activities.”

-Edward Snowden, 2020

Bulk Collection--a euphemism for mass surveillance--is a film-essay 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 gentrification--a New York City of ubiquitous mega construction sites, constant demolition, and the socio-economic fallout of limbic capitalism and the COVID regime. The construction of the massive new Downtown home of Disney's 650-million dollars headquarters at 4 Hudson Square--which Masha Tupitsyn filmed for over a year--the COVID-19 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. BULK COLLECTION concludes by receding from the digital City, as Tupitsyn makes a pilgrimage back in time to a literal and metaphorical land's end, Provincetown, Massachusetts, one of America's oldest towns as well a childhood haven. Set aside as the nation's second-oldest common land in 1654, the Atlantic Ocean becomes a come-down calendar of cyclical tides and existential wonder. A natural landscape that is vast, stunningly complex, and antidotally slow.