New experimental film ” whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir” by Eve Sussman sounds amazing – wonder how to get it to China…
“The Soviets built Aktau in the sixties as a planned city, a secret, closed uranium-mining settlement. To this day, the city has no street names; every address is a set of three numbers. Aktau “looks like a circuit board,” Sussman said in a recent interview with Filmmaker magazine. “Your address is like 3-36-12 or something; it’s sort of like you’re living inside a combination lock.” Aktau’s Alphaville-on-the-Kazakh-steppe appearance gave Sussman and Wood the idea of making a noir movie, and much of the film was shot there.”