‘The Human Surge 3’ Review: An Experimental Odyssey That Bends the World With a 360-Degree Camera
variety.comJ. Kim Murphy Mankind is barreling further into an age of climate disaster, but whether it has the speaking vocabulary, much less a cinematic one, to accurately interpret its rapidly changing environment is another matter.
With his astonishing new experimental feature, “The Human Surge 3,” Argentine filmmaker Eduardo Williams proposes a new analogue for the sensation of modern living: It’s kind of like seeing panoramas shot with a 360-degree camera, navigated via a VR headset and then translated back to a traditional cinematic frame, completely and utterly distorting the imagery in the process.
If that all sounds like a discombobulating experience, it is. It’s also a uniquely rewarding one. Prospective viewers should at least be familiar with the first “Human Surge” before experiencing Williams’ continuation.
As an art-house in-joke, the title of Williams’ new sort-of-documentary, sort-of-funhouse-mirror-maze skips straight to threequel status.
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