Whether the world be finite, and whether there be more than one world...

Directed by Corey Hughes

With Federica Ferro and PTE 003.2

To describe the world is to create another. A disembodied narrator recounts the life and death of Pliny the Elder, author of the first encyclopedia. Excerpts from Pliny’s "Naturalis Historia," echo between past and present, real and virtual, tracing the evolution of knowledge from written encyclopedias to modern AI algorithms.