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

The read

It runs a compact 10m.

Synopsis

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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Key crew

• Corey HughesDirector

Cast

• Federica FerroNarrator
• PTE 003.2Pliny

Themes