Somewhere takes us to a near future where the line between the real and the simulated has dissolved. We live online. We download environments to inhabit, parks, shopping malls, and entire interiors, and meet friends through seamless telepresence, as if they were physically beside us.

Everything is connected. Objects, furniture, even textures are nanorobotic replications, streamed and installed on demand through credit-based systems. Distance and time feel obsolete. The local and the global collapse into one. Consumer capitalism has evolved into a fully “glocalised” reality. The singularity feels close. The film follows an ordinary inhabitant inside the latest SimuHouse, a home that can transform instantly. A painting becomes a park. A phone call becomes a shopping mall. Reality shifts fluidly around her.

Then the system begins to fail. A glitch spreads. Environments flicker. The illusion fractures. Finally, the house is forced to reset. Everything disappears and reloads, including her dog, which dematerialises and reforms in front of her.

A quiet but unsettling reminder: none of it was ever real.

The film was constructed using a plethora of software, with 3ds Max as its host. The project was created to form part of an architectural thesis on ‘post neo tribalism’ and how technology can make us feel more isolated than any generation beforehand.

The short film was featured on the Vimeo Awards 2012, onedotzero, alphaville, Soho shorts, and many online publications like Wired and the creators project. It’s thought provoking message of the dangers of isolation in infinate technological posibilities was ahead of it’s time as we get closer to this reality with the advancements of Ai and nano robotics.