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The director’s episode: how tech makes movies

The Vergecast

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The New Genre of on Screen Storytelling

The two best examples of on screen storytelling I've seen so far are a movie from 2018 called Searching and a sort of spiritual sequel to it from this year called Missing. They're both movies about trying to find a missing person. The technical term for these is apparently computer screen movies. And I find this kind of movie making totally fascinating. It feels so modern.

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