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17 Pages is a brilliant documentary that I found to be entertaining throughout its 206 minute runtime, despite the seemingly dull subject and events that the film itself concedes as nothing more than a historical footnote. Though the topic is "the Baltimore affair" (involving possible scientific misconduct within a paper published in the journal Cell on the possible discovery of idiotypic mimicry in serology) it becomes more about cognitive bias and subjective reality. The filmmaker did a great job of presenting both sides of the truth in an interesting way with interviews, archive footage, and voice actors reading direct quotes alongside interesting digital paintings and 3D renders.

It is a technology demonstration, except the artist has zero proficiency in the technology they are attempting to showcase.

Baby Invasion is full frame of overlays and filters. Visual effects using artificial intelligence, video game engines, infrared depth and motion sensing, and datamoshing to name a few. Though the filmmaker seems satisfied with merely achieving the effect with little care for the end result.

It does have a very small amount of interesting naïve art. Though not always, you'll know when it's being displayed because they were smart enough to remove the simulated livestream chatroom overlay that otherwise takes up half of the frame throughout the 79 minute runtime.

I did enjoy the soundtrack which I felt accompanied the imagery well. The original score by Burial really carries the film, allowing it a chance that anyone would ever view it to the end.