Whether the world be finite, and whether there be more than one world...
2025
10 min
English
To describe the world is to create another.
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To describe the world is to create another. A disembodied narrator recounts the life and death of Pliny the Elder, author of the first encyclopedia. Excerpts from Pliny’s "Naturalis Historia," echo between past and present, real and virtual, tracing the evolution of knowledge from written encyclopedias to modern AI algorithms.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Expanded Views
Keywords
- natural history
- machinima
Top Cast
Federica Ferro as Narrator
PTE 003.2 as Pliny
Top Crew
Corey Hughes · Director, Cinematographer
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