The special edition that frames the extended tribute of the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival to Post Reality features texts that examine this notion, walking us through a familiar yet uncanny universe, shortly after Mark Zuckerberg declared the dawn of the metaverse era in November 2021, in the middle of the pandemic. Social media and the digital reality claim their spot within our “natural” world, laying the groundwork for humanity to join an alternative and altered “reality.” Media and technology scholars, film critics, artists, and writers attempt unique approaches to an era where every image of our world is constantly updated through countless representations, expanding our perception on what is real and not, while formulating a new definition of how and why we seek the “truth”.
