Broadcast Signal Intrusion
Haunted by the loss of his wife, a Chicago video archivist (Harry Shum Jr.) stumbles across an unsettling series of broadcast signal intrusions. Soon, he begins to believe the images that appear in the clips may be intimately tied to his own life, and his grasp on reality begins to spiral as he digs deeper and deeper into their origins and meaning. Broadcast Signal Intrusion came out last year, but it’s set in 1999 and makes excellent use of Y2K-era fears about technology in a time when the tech world was rapidly changing. This is the film that came to mind first while I was watching Archive 81—and while its story is not as intricate as the one that unravels across the series, its doom-laden mood is very similar.
