The Human Surge 3 (2023) review

Finally, what everyone's been waiting for: a feature-length experimental film inspired by Google Street View!  Williams and his crew follow various LGBTQ+ folks in Sri Lanka, Peru and Taiwan as they walk around, have peculiar conversations (hating millionaires, cooking eggs, etc.), take in the sights, sleep ... and every so often someone collapses.  The entire project was shot using a Insta360 Titan VR camera so the "appearance" can be quite trippy (when it gets close to faces they tend to become distorted) and it employs ultra-long single takes (especially the last hike where individuals start to float and do somersaults in the sky), but the style also acts as a distancing device: it (intentionally) cuts between countries at random so it's consistently disorienting and the cast, recorded at extreme distances (so they're basically turned into human ants), are reduced to the sound of their voices.  It doesn't seem like much while watching it but the images linger in the mind, and the day after screening it you might be convinced you took a journey through another person's very placid dream: in Jungian terminology, Williams could be trying to "depict" the "collective unconscious."  This particular exchange seems particularly revealing: "Do you have a disability?"  "Yes, sometimes I can't think."