The Presence Project: JOHN FLETCHER SR.

The Builders Association and dbox, SUPER VISION: JOHN FLETCHER SR.

SUPER VISION tells three stories

1. As he crosses successive borders, a solitary traveller gradually is forced to reveal all of his personal information, until his identity becomes transparent, with no part of his life left outside the boundaries of datasurveillance.

2. A young woman (Jen), addicted to the white noise of constant connection, maintains a long-distance relationship with her Grandmother. As she makes efforts to digitally archive her Grandmother's past, the Grandmother slips into senility.

3. A father covertly exploits his young son's personal data to meet the demands of the family's lifestyle. This ploy escalates beyond the father's control, until he is compelled to disappear. His wife and son are left with a starkly diminished data portrait, and his escape is shadowed by the long reach of the datasphere.

David Pence

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Onstage and mediated: David Pence (John Fletcher Sr.)
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David Pence: When I first came in contact with the John Fletcher Sr. character, I immediately connected to him and felt that I understood him completely—and ‘evil’ was not the first word that came into my mind. Of course, I do understand the evil inflections people see in the character. But I felt that I knew how to play him in a way that would have those very dark tones as well as other qualities that people would recognise in themselves.

see also: the family | playing to camera |

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