THEY SPOKE ABOUT THE SILENCE
Press, reviews and responses to the film
2026: these articles are not only reception archives. They preserve the moment when the word "nanotechnology" gathered promises, capital, anxieties and science fiction, before being overtaken by converging technologies. What was then called nanos now circulates under other names: AI, bioengineering, traceability, interfaces, automation.
Warning: this film is not a film about nanotechnologies. It does not show the nanoworld, invisible even to an electronic eye. Instead, it reveals the small world of those who speak about nanos in order to promote, question or denounce them. What world, what society, what relations between humans do these techniques and the objects they produce imply?
The title is a pun, and the film itself is a bold self-produced documentary made entirely from images gathered on the internet. Its merit is to ask the questions that nobody asks, just as nanotechnology applications are about to enter everyday life.
The film was produced outside conventional production logic. Its content, form and underground character led Tiers-Cinema to organize an early screening. The film takes place on a computer screen and does not stage a near future; it films what is already here.
A word about The Silence Of The BANGs: a film-reflection on nanotechnologies, edited by downloading images without leaving the computer. A true documentary, made without money, without production, even without a camera. Perhaps one of the first of a generation of "Google films."