TIME BOMB Y2K

Crafted entirely through archival footage, TIME BOMB Y2K documents the countdown to Y2K against the backdrop of the mass hysteria that infiltrated everything from politics to pop culture.

As the year 2000 approached, rumblings spread from computer engineers to the mainstream consciousness about a ubiquitous error in computer code that could cause the world’s computerized systems to grind to a halt. TIME BOMB Y2K is a wild ride through the final days of the ’90s and a compelling portrait of a turning point in the digital revolution. By examining this hingepoint between millennia, the film interrogates our ever-changing relationship to technology and each other. TIME BOMB Y2K examines how we grapple with existential threats in an increasingly technological world.