MDVL: 1,000 YEARS OF DARK AGES (PART 3/5) - Adam Green
PART 3 - Generations pass and King Arthur’s Amerikka devolves into the corrupt ‘Holy Amerikkan Empire,’ where drug addled, gaudy royals govern with an iron-fist. To preserve their power, they create a surveillance state anchored around a new data-worshipping religion: Dataism. Bionic corneal transplants are performed on all Amerikkans, and the information collected from their eyes is used to entrap dissenting heretics as well as to create digital avatars of the entire populace. Artistic expression is criminalized and obscured by book-burning censors.
Heretics apprehended by the ‘Holy Amerikkan Empire’ stand trial before Grand Inquisitor Tomas Torquemada’s tribunal, comprised of twitter-bots and computer algorithm judges. The convicted are packed into concentration camps, to be tortured in plague-filled dungeons or burnt alive during public Auto Da Fe ceremonies.
A group of rebel heretics, hoping to end the reign of the Dataists, design a species of superhumans with god-like artificial intelligence. The Dataists send an army of knights on a crusade to destroy the superhumans, who are being manufactured inside of a temple in Silicon Valley, Jerusalem. When the knights find they cannot break into the temple, they bomb it with a nuclear missile, seemingly destroying all the world’s data which was stored underneath the temple on the hard drive of the universe.
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--- CREDITS:
Written by Adam Green
Edited by Yasmin Green
Produced by Spheres Projects and Adam Green
Directed and Animated by Tom Bayne
Drawings by Adam Green
Additional drawings by Toby Goodshank and Tom Bayne
Soundtrack produced by Loren Humphrey
All music written, recorded, and performed by Jesse Kotansky, James Richardson, and Adam Green
Voice recorded and edited by Vin Cacchione
© 2020 Adam Green
Thank you to Yasmin Green, Devon Church, Jack Dishel, Austin Lee, and Philippe Karrer