Blockchain is a digital docudrama set in in the limitless universe of Minecraft. The film follows the ghost of Walter Gropius on an extended dèrive through ten of the game's worlds, shadowing him as he ponders the social and political fundamentals of creativity. Fragments of conversations with the creators of maps and servers, memories from the past, observations, speculations and conjectures of one of the 20th century's great utopians intersect with a transnational digital universe in which learning, labor and play are all mediated by the basic shape of the block. Drifting in childlike wonder through the imaginary landscapes of a culture whose transition from the industrial to the digital is complete, W_Gropius becomes a pioneer of uncharted spatial dimensions—intangible meta-mechanics, utopian city plans, robotic prototypes, dream-like realities— tracing, as he progresses, the art of construction from the physical to the cybernetic. A film by Space Caviar (Joseph Grima, Martina Muzi) Soundtrack— Charles Tapp Voice— Simon Beckmann Produced with Replay Mode by Crushed Pixel and johni0702 Skin design— Brain Juice Filmed on location in— The Dropper by Bigre Titan City by Colonial Puppet Minecraft Automatic Farms by RedstoneSpire Red rose city Cathedral by Cesearon Team Scale model of my house by Capp00 Climate Hope City by Block works Team Redstone Computer by LPG Controllable Battle Robots by CubeHamster Bauhaus building by Jduartemiller Sango Sho dreamscape by Lentebriesje SkyBlock by Noobcrew Produced with support of Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

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