What are visual effects? Can they ever love us back? Nearly ten years ago, Ian Hubert turned up on YouTube with a science fiction web series called Dynamo. To us old-fashioned narrative peeps, the episode looks like a mess. Turn it off when your head hurts.
‘What is Dynamo?’ the text asks.
‘It’s like a sequence of events (but not in that order). It’s like an array of words and representational images. It’s an experiment. It’s a story. It’s a series of shorts. It’s a sci-fi/fantasy/’cute cyberpunk’ webseries. It’s the result of four years of late night discussions between friends. It’s a convoluted puzzle about the nature of reality (and monsters! and horrible romance!) It’s a narrative with layers of interlocking pieces. It’s the best thing we know how to make- and it’s pretty wacky!’
