During Immaterial, the AV laboratory will show the films presented at the + RAIN Film Festival, the international AI-generated film festival that explores how this technology intersects with contemporary film storytelling.
Of youth, Fran Gas
After a strange dream, a young woman is abducted by aliens who try to take away her youth.
Kiss/Crash, Adam Cole
A provocative short film that uses AI-generated imagery to explore the theme of desire and the widening gap between real experience and artificial representation.
Algorithms of beauty , Miléna Trivier
Can a picture contain all the beauty of a flower? This is what the narrator is looking for. To try to make it, she takes a revolutionary tool, an Artificial Intelligence.
Through the film, she creates a link with Mary Delany. Indeed, the flowers created 300 years ago by the English botanist are strangely in resonance with those created by the algorithms.
Between technology and emotions, Algorithms of Beauty questions the limits of our gaze when faced with AI images.
Sarah Palin forever, Eryk Salvaggio
Sarah Palin Forever is the story of a teenage girl who has spent her entire life inside an endlessly repeating political rally inside an airport hangar in Bangor, Maine. The story is told through Deepfake technologies, blending generated images with a vocal synthesizer trained on thousands of hours of Sarah Palin rallies. Rather than emphasizing the spectacle of this realism, the film leans into the uncanniness of these tools to deliver a story that is best described as political existentialist horror. It comments on the inescapability of media systems, and suggests a political aspect of algorithmic culture, which can repeat patterns in infinite remix rather than creating new futures.
Portrait of the Jungle People, Eddie Wong
Since I was a child attending the Ching Ming Festival, I knew that my grandfather’s portrait on his gravestone was wrong. I later learnt that his tomb was empty and the portrait on the headstone may not be him at all. All we knew about him was that he left his family and ‘entered the jungle’ to fight the British. We call him a ‘jungle person’ — Sanba-lou, a Cantonese term used to describe the communist guerrillas. As a member of the MCP, he likely died at the hands of the British colonial forces. And without a photograph, nor records of the man, we may never know whose portrait is on the tombstone.
My Word, Carme Puche Moré
MY WORD is an audiovisual creation project based on text-to-image latent diffusion model (LDM) technology that uses implicit bias in technology to be part of the debate on the unconscious biases generated by the patriarchal and colonial system . It starts from a creative investigation of the current tools developed to relate the creation of imagination with the new stakes of Artificial Intelligence.
The AV laboratory will show the films presented at the + RAIN Film Festival.