But the wind blew through me like I was a hologram. If you say I am a mystic, then fine: I’m a mystic. The trees are not trees, anyway

Jacob Geller examines collapse and isolation through the lens of the first Twilight Zone Episode, the video game Death Stranding, Ray Bradbury and other cultural touchstones all orbiting around the central motif of the empty room augmented by virtual experience.

Notably missing from this video essay however is the most stunning empty room crafted by a human artist of all, the film Stalker by Andrey Tarkovsky.

https://archive.org/details/stalker-movie

youtube link to video essay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0K2DnI1TDk