Excerpt from the beginning of a video centering on a computer-generated woman raised by the Internet in isolation in a virtual void. From the apartment where she has been placed Andra8 works as a digital laborer, surviving off the data from her various freemium jobs as a virtual assistant, a data janitor, a life coach, and a content creator.

The domestic space from which she is constantly surveilled looks like the inoffensive love child of the results of a ‘Mid-century modern’ Pinterest search, a mental health hospital, and a perpetually sunny L.A. Airbnb. In other words: A kind of antiseptic neoliberal purgatory.

As she multitasks throughout the day, Andra8 is monitored finding herself overwhelmed by a web of global client demands. Something begins to trouble Andra8: her life depends on her compulsory consumption and output of human data – or so she’s been told. Andra8 explores the implications of such an existence, and what arises when one attempts to subvert them.

CREDITS
Director: Alison Nguyen
Cinematographer: Jonathan Beilin
Technical Director: Jonathan Beilin
Co- Writers: Alison Nguyen & Achim Koh
Co-Editors: Stephanie Netpune & Alison Nguyen
Score: Scott Kiernan
Vocal Sound Design: Tim Bruniges
Additional Music: Ivan Berko
Script Editor: Rachel Pontbriand
Drafting: Shisanwu LLC
Character Modeling: Nicole Ruggiero
Post-Production Supervisor: Stephanie Neptune
Sound Mix: Andrew Nerviano
Titles: Wes Adams