Courtesy of the artist.

Simon Ripoll-Hurier, "The Signal Line” (2023), exhibition version.

« Somewhere, perhaps in the unconscious mind, there exists what we will label “the Matrix”. The Matrix knows no boundaries and has no limitations – it contains all information about all things. » 

(declassified CIA archive, 1988)

About 50 years ago, the CIA was looking for new ways to collect intelligence, and

launched a secret program on psychic vision and extrasensory perception. Is it a

coincidence that this happened at the same time and place as the creation of the 

Internet? Are “the cloud” and “the Matrix” ethereal siblings? The Signal Line is a 

film both on the San Francisco Bay Area and on Clairvoyance, and on how they 

are somehow related. It is a sci-fi documentary on the edge between divination 

and espionage, New Age and new tech, a film about the possibility of perceiving 

the invisible, of seeing through walls, bodies, time and space, and a film about the 

possibility of sharing these visions.