The New Frontier program at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival probes the changing relationship between physical and digital experience, often through the lenses of utopianism and nostalgia.
A lecture usually has a beginning, middle, and end, but Price does not provide such an arc. He is preoccupied with narrative on a semiotic rather than practical level.
The film's central conceit is to lampoon bad, mid-2000s mumblecore movies by being one both formally and narratively—but this doesn't add anything of value to the exploration of authenticity.