it is Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991). David Blair directs and stars.
it's completely bonkers, maybe something you have to convince yourself to commit to sitting down for. but strangest to me is that it seems loved as a great film too, not just for innovating.
there are also treats in there for fans of vintage, consumer PC-rendered CG.
As the first film streamed across the Internet in 1993 (at 2 frames per second), the New York Times declaring Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees an “historic event.”[2] That same year, the hypermedia version of the film, Waxweb, was one of the first sites on the World Wide Web,[6] and thus has been repeatedly cited as a milestone of Internet Art. Waxweb has been presented in museums worldwide.[8] Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees was an early example of digital cinema, was one of the first independent films to be edited on a digital non-linear system, the Montage Picture Processor, and transferred from video to film for theatrical presentation.
see also David Blair's odd website.