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The subtitle is: { < An Interactive Film > }. But as someone on the Screen/Play symposium panel said, it only gives the illusion of interactivity. The viewer acts, but the film does not respond in the sense that there is an active dialogue between the two parties involved.
That being said, I was expecting to see a film where you would watch part of the film, the story coming to a halt presenting the viewer with three choices, and then continuing on given this input.

Experiencing Late Fragment was quite different though. The total amount of footage is about 4 hours, split in tiny components, linked together using an intricate web of connections. This enables the viewer at all times to switch to a different storyline and or to explore a current storyline in more depth, with the film always continuously unfolding. This basically means that "the film" (or better: one "trajectory", as the director called it) has a run length between 5 minutes and 4 hours. On average a screening lasts between one hour and an hour and a half.
During our screening the remote was passed around so that several members of the audience could determine the course of the film for a little while. As an experience it was definitely worthwhile, and quite a lot of the stories were relatively clear at the end of the film even though the narrative was pretty disjoint and fragmented. Too bad I didn't necessarily like the main characters or themes...

Rating: 5