The Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) - a first-generation computer built in 1950 by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards - reads the obituary of Russell A. Kirsch, an American engineer on the SEAC team who developed the first digital image scanner, and thus created the very first digital image.
The film repurposes and deforms the 1957 image of Russell Kirsch's son Walden by digitally rescanning a printed copy in motion. This is juxtaposed to an obituary narrated by a speech synthesizer, resulting in a meditation on time, memory, poetry, and the digital image.