Who Installed “I”? / Video Essay
A scripted essay film using identity as an interface: biographies, inherited beliefs and the authority we give familiar sentences.
The video essay starts with the problem of a biography describing a moving person as though the file had finished downloading. From there, labels and internal voices become a visual system through which to inspect inherited beliefs, their original function and their continuing authority.
The recovered voiceover and shot directions translate the longer philosophical inquiry into a focused essay-film form. On-screen interfaces, reflections, typed profiles and ordinary Nairobi movement give an abstract question material behaviour. The software metaphor is a way of seeing, not a scientific claim about what a person is.
The writing specifies an 8–10 minute master and compositions that can support shorter vertical cuts. It is a completed script draft awaiting performance, filming, editing and final sound. Its relationship to the podcast is an adaptation into another form, not a duplicate published video.