The Electric Kiss

Two bodies trapped in a virtual reality. Added to that are shimmering carpets of color, distorted textures, and waves of light. Rainer Kohlberger fashions a dystopian fiction from the remnants of cinema’s past, giving us a glimpse into the dystopian future of tech utopianists. Drawing on excerpts from obscure sci-fi films, The Electric Kiss imagines a world not unlike our own, in which people plug their brains into a kind of neuro-network that connects the whole of human consciousness. Out of the prismatic visual noise, a quasi-plot emerges: a man in a VR headset, lost in space, subjects himself to a mysterious procedure to alleviate the ill effects of this new technology on the mind.