A woman dreams of the American cryptographer Hal Finney. A major economic crisis affects the cryptocurrency market, tens of thousands of people are cryogenized waiting for a better future. Are they suspended or falling into the void? What strange relationship do we have with the future? for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world is an experimental film that addresses the links between crypto culture and cryogenics as two speculative technologies for which the future becomes an economic resource to be exploited. Through a collage of YouTube videos, archival images, and 3D animations, the film explores the links between financial speculation, speculative science-fiction, and the prediction and governance of the future.

The video contains some quotes from the book: Digital Cash, The Unknown History of the Anarchist, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency, by Finn Brunton.

Special Audience Screening: Gala Hernández López screens her work in progress for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world at its final stage before completion, before its official premiere later this year.

Supported by Salon de Montrouge.