Portal Excursion, 2006
10:06 min
"In Portal, Mike's lifelong project of knowledge acquisition is renewed when, at middle age, he discovers OpenCourseWare, MIT's 'free and open educational resource for self-learners around the world.' The soundtrack to Smith's dreamlike, deadpan meditation on isolation in the Global Village was composed by Red Krayola co-founder Mayo Thompson." — Larissa Harris