Wonsuk Chin’s video documentary “e-dreams” is a cautionary tale of the dot-com era’s illogical hopes and rampant hubris. Like last year’s “Startup.com,” “e-dreams” follows the rapid rise and faster fall of an internet start-up, in this case, New York-based Kozmo.com. Though the key players — most notably, 27-year-old CEO Joseph Park — are by definition modern-day entrepreneurs, there is something mythic about their nosedive off the mountaintop.
Kozmo.com collapsed, like many similar houses of cards, because it was built on long-term promises (a.k.a. venture capital), and once it was exposed for what it was — a fledgling company based on a single good concept — it was buried under a mountain of debt. In that sense, “e-dreams” is less a revelation than it is an old-fashioned reminder.
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“e-dreams” ((star)(star) 1/2) plays at 7 and 9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday at Facets Multimedia, 1517 W. Fullerton Ave.; 773-281-9075.
