Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 17 hours ago

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Shortwave is a short film program from Sydney Opera House that invites artists to explore their relationship with the screen.

" If You Can't Larp, You'll Cry" scrutinises the shift in digital media production brought about by the subscription economy and the implications of not owning but merely accessing software. It explores how these tools have changed the way we communicate, and created new desires for understanding and connection. Through the work, the group speculates that services and hacks use video technology could construct a new politics of life by projecting a totality yet to come.

Artists

Unreal Engine Development
Li Yi Fan

Sound & Script
Mat Spisbah

Choreography & Movement
Harrison Hall

Commissioned in partnership with Psuedo.

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