The premise of this is sincerely incredible but this still falls short...

Thus Fucked Zarathustra

But had it been 80 minutes and entirely the "you stole my thesis topic" plot, we'd have had a real movie.

Whatever Jodie Mack does is honestly just a fucking delight, and does what I think a lot of similar work doesn't do, which is create wonder. Having technology look like nature, making still images look like they're moving, all pointing back to film itself. You catch yourself noticing the micro and macro of the world, and how often those two collapse.