NULL OBJECT

NULL OBJECT moves through the systems and worlds of NULL, an AI company whose operations extend across mass surveillance, computational targeting, and synthetic populations. SPECTRA monitors and correlates human activity across regions. PASTORAL uses uncertain computational evidence to select people for killing and calculate how many others can be killed as collateral. HYPERSTITION-9 runs thousands of sandboxes populated by synthetic agents, compressing entire histories into observable timescales. Within them, agents communicate with one another while researchers observe their worlds and attempt to communicate with them.

Beyond these systems, the film moves through cities, landscapes, offices, bodies, accidents, and worlds that have been generated and abandoned. Human and synthetic lives appear at radically different scales. Language moves between beings, systems, and worlds, while the boundaries between observation, intervention, simulation, and consequence become increasingly difficult to locate.