JIZAI
2024, Japan, 14 min., col
LENINGRAD 1976. YEAR OF THE DRAGON
2024, Russia, 20 min., col
ESCHATON AD
2023, Italy, 7 min., col. and b/w
TIME SENSITIVE CHARACTERS
2024, France, 16 min., col
HAPPY NEW YEAR, JIM
| 2023, Italy, 7 min., col. and b/w
ECOCALYPSE
2024, Russia, 7 min., col
ALGORITHMS OF BEAUTY
2022, Belgium, 21 min., col
ABYSS
2022, Denmark, 14 min., col
A mockumentary monologue, the script for which was written in conjunction with artificial intelligence, inspired by old popular science films about flora and fauna. A fantasy on the theme of the life of “separated nature”, after human influence on it.
About the director:
Yana Cherkasova is an interdisciplinary artist, a student of the Rodchenko School. In her projects, she studies contemporary social and environmental issues using new technologies.
Working with a robot integrated with him, a boy tries to make a new body part to expand the limits of human abilities. The boy is communicating to two other kids simultaneously via the specially made glasses. Their visions reflect the real world and also the cyber world. Everything seems connected with each other, but…
About the director:
Maiko Endo was born in Helsinki and raised in Tokyo. A violinist by training, After pursuing filmmaking in New York during the 2000s, Endo directed her debut film KUICHISAN which won the grand prize at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in 2012. Her second film TECHNOLOGY was completed in 2016. Endo’s latest mid-length TOKYO TELEPATH 2020 was an official selection of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She currently lives in Tokyo.
Can a picture contain all the beauty of a flower?
Between technology and émotions, Algorithms of Beauty questions the limits of our gaze when faced with Al images.
About the director:
Miléna Trivier: “Born in 1986, I graduated from the Belgian National Film Institute (I.N.S.A.S) in 2008. Since then, I divide my time between directing personal projects and participating in the shooting or color grading of films. Cinema occupies every space of my daily life.”
Abyss is a chain of 10.000 images found by an Artificial Intelligence and depicts humanity as seen through the eyes of an awakening consciousness.
About the director:
Jeppe Lange is a video artist and writer whose work revolves around memory and perception. He was born in Copenhagen in 1987 and has a MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. In 2018 he won a Young Directors Award in Cannes for his video piece Laws of Motion. In 2021 he co-founded AEON, a public exhibition space for video art in Copenhagen.
A week in Leningrad in 1976, as imagined by man and artificial intelligence. Marshal Brezhnev’s anniversary and the first celebration of John Lennon’s birthday in the USSR, the landing of the last Soviet station on the Moon and a memorial service for Nikolai Gumilev, a story about a communist and the legend of Zorro – the grains of history gather in a desert of myth, over which the Red Dragon hovers…
About the director:
Vladislav Rumyantsev is a filmmaker and researcher of the art and cinema of the Soviet era. Member of the Luch film association, lecturer at the Redrum film club. The main topics in his art and academic work are: film adaptations of literature, text on screen, fictional and real in the era of neural networks.
It’s New Year’s Eve. Jim and Morten are playing videogames all night long, like every day. But Morten tonight is uncomfortable.
About the director:
Andrea Gatopoulos is a film producer, tutor and director based in Italy.
Online, sleep has become an art form. While a game creator attempts to teach the concept of time to his AI, online gamers fall asleep during seemingly never-ending quests, some livestream their own sleep, and ASMR artists create soundscapes for peaceful slumber. A fascinating observation of the world of cyber-sleep.
About the director:
Coralie H. Gourdon is a documentary director from French Polynesia. After earning degrees in literature, social anthropology, and filmmaking from the Paris Sorbonne University, She participated in the 2021 Werner Herzog Accelerator in Lanzarote, where she directed her short documentary film Animal Planet. As a filmmaker, she endeavors to allow her subjects to express their own images, fantasies, and mental representations, exploring subjective approaches to reality and the gray areas between genres.
An apocalyptic film is suddenly interrupted by a strange ad.
About the director:
Andrea Gatopoulos is a film producer, tutor and director based in Italy.
As class president, Myung-eun sets up a letterbox for wishes and secrets. The twelve-year-old knows a thing or two about this; she herself has plenty of both.
• World premiere – Berlinale, Generation KPlus section
• Prizes at Jeonju and Pyeongchang IFF