Teleporting migrants and US troopers are segregated on the CAPS, an island of metamorphosing bodies and virtual realities.
The final chapter in a dystopian sci-fi trilogy, Life on the CAPS imagines a world where unauthorised migrants disassemble their bodies and teleport. They have been detained by US immigration troopers on the CAPS, a once-transitory island in the Atlantic Ocean that became a city with its own music, dance and high-tech culture. The migrants develop plastic faces or adaptable physical forms if they do not properly rematerialise—like Kamal, who has bought a new body to fight for liberation. Occupying separate zones, troopers and migrants have bizarre online encounters via deep-sea data cables. This film speculates on the states of possibility and revolution that can emerge from a world of bodily fluidity and virtual realities. A co-commission by Nottingham Contemporary and The Renaissance Society.
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