The Deleted Scene (2012), is very much of the current moment of global data streams, fast downloads, YouTube art, and a dominance of financial capitalism built on ever-more sophisticated and dematerializing financial instruments. The particular ‘scene’ of The Deleted Scene is the mobilizing of a volunteer army of bodies in tangential industries, such as creatives and hipsters, who are thought to bring vitality and viability to previously dead real and virtual spaces and networks. It is also a reflection on the desires of these bodies to ‘keep it real’: an action which acknowledges the impossibility of escaping the ever-hatching realms of instrumentalization - where even the term instrumentalization itself feels ‘profitable’ - while also not producing the obedient smoothness required of distant financial products. The distance of cut-up data and capital investment begins to be carved out as a place of detour; but i tis also not as clear-cut as this, as a YouTube clip of We’re in the Money from Gold Diggers of 1993 is flowed into this particular network and allowed to go ‘viral’. The Deleted Scene was produced in collaboration with, and shot in and around, the collectively run, self-organized cinema space, AP news, in Zurich.