12 minutes, zero words, and somehow you'll never look at a circuit board the same way again.
The Hello Machine is a short, wordless film-poem, in which he chronicles the building of an entire ESS Mainframe. It is a poetic musing on the connections between handwork and the act of communicating. The film chronicles the act of making and building the mainframe with human hands so carefully that it becomes a handcraft, like weaving or sewing.
Cinematography
Extreme close-ups that make microchips look like abstract art.
Direction
Ballard finds soul in silicon before soul in silicon was a thing.
Director
Carroll Ballard
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