Deep Dive

In a near future Los Angeles everyone sees the city through their own set of augmented reality contact lenses. Through these digital screens, it is possible for them to curate their experience of the world, just like an online network bubble that has become physical. Here a young Persian refugee arrives at the border to the city and is given a mandatory set of government-issued immigrant transition AR lenses. Shut out of other people's reality she slowly descends into a new form of digital alienation.