Whether the world be finite, and whether there be more than one world...

Name: Whether the world be finite, and whether there be more than one world...
Genre: Documentary, Science Fiction
Duration: 10 min
Cast: Federica Ferro, PTE 003.2

"To describe the world is to create another."Movie

StarringFederica FerroPTE 003.2

DirectorCorey Hughes

NR 10 minDocumentary, Science Fiction

Plot

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.

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