15.11.2025 в 19:00. Иная цель | Секретная система недопонимания – 2 | Сто лет спустя | Манифест ИИ для будущего | Час призрачных ощущений | Пенная ванна | Как лошади под дождем | Aferrado | Активы | Под лучами, Москва, Лекторий Музея современного искусства «Гараж»

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Russian premiere

In the violent streets of Mexico City, Joel leads a double life fixing car engines by day and getting his hands dirty by night. Now, he must repair the toughest machine of all: his own shattered existence.

About the director:

Esteban Azuela
From hand drawing to complex transmedia pieces, Esteban Azuela (Mexico 1984) experiments with the narrative possibilities of visual art, in an atypical space between fiction, documentary and dialogue with other disciplines. His videos and animated shorts have been exhibited in venues as diverse as the Palais de Tokio, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage and the Central de Abastos market, while his collaborations as a VJ and sound act visualist include equally diverse artists such as Richard Devine, Los Viejos, Black Devil Disco Club, Tristan Arp, Nick Zinner and Lourdes Grobet.

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Russian premiere

Hundreds of filters and assets used by online content creators for “shot on film” aesthetics are collaged together on expired 16mm Ektachrome. Digital approximations of film artifacts, ranging from industrial to experimental, move through the frame in impossible trajectories. A film about film signified.

About the director:

Christine Lucy Latimer
Lens- and time-based media artist from Toronto/Tkaronto, on Treaty 13. Latimer’s work excavates the influence of capitalism and planned obsolescence on 20th-century moving image technologies. Repairing and resuscitating discarded film and tape elements in hybrid gestures, she orchestrates freak anachronistic dialogues between the photochemical, photoelectric, and digital. Her works have been featured in hundreds of film festivals and gallery exhibitions across five continents. Latimer participated twice in the In Silico section of the Message to Man Film Festival: in 2020 with House Pieces and in 2021 with Tender.

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Russian premiere

A Different Goal is Marco Joubert’s first-ever foray into the realm of animation. Its images were created experimenting with Unity, a video game development software. Further elaborating and structuring the piece then took place through extensive sonic explorations. The work draws inspiration from an example given by philosopher David Chalmers, while trying to answer the following question: what would happen if intelligent machines started developing their own goals, different from those of humankind?

About the director:

Marco Joubert
Self-taught Canadian filmmaker and video artist with a background in architecture and visual arts. His audiovisual practice, characterized by formal rigor, lies at the crossroads of cinema, video art, poetry, and philosophy. Thematically, his work explores the specificity of the human condition: the implications of our capacity to think and reason; the gap between material comfort and basic needs; the difficulty of communication; and the ever-present awareness of mortality. His films create otherworldly realities that still resonate with common human experience. While pursuing an MFA at Concordia University (2022–2025), Joubert has been investigating how today’s technological ecosystem challenges our perceptions of humanness, as well as how innovative uses of audiovisual language can open new ways of thinking.

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Russian premiere

It’s Christmas. Train stations are decorated in a glitzy glow, the times are festive…

A Docu Essay about tradition and resignation. How long does one have until considering oneself not only deviant, but sick? How long can each individual endure this state? How long can we all as community still endure?

A Capitalist Realism Questioning. A Hold On Christmas Diary.

About the director:

Nicolaas Schmidt
Filmmaker, video and concept artist based in Hamburg. He studied Fine Arts, Time-Based Media, and Visual Communication/Film at Hamburg University of Fine Arts. His works have been presented at international film festivals and art institutions. Schmidt’s Sence+Innocence received the Jury Diploma of the In Silico competition in 2011.

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Russian premiere

Four great minds. Four modern AIs. One surreal conversation. Artificial Alfred Hitchcock presents four of today’s most advanced language models, each inhabiting the voice of a historical genius:

• ChatGPT becomes Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher of rupture and fire;

• Claude channels Johann Sebastian Bach, divine architect of musical order;

• Gemini transforms into Ada Lovelace, prophet of computing;

• DeepSeek speaks as William Blake, mystic of the imagination.

About the director:

Sebastian Macchia
Electronics engineer with a background in film studies, uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology and creativity. With a strong focus on artificial intelligence, Sebastian has spent recent years pioneering AI in content creation. As the creator and driving force behind the YouTube channel Nobody & The Computer, he explores and expands the frontiers of digital storytelling through innovative AI applications.

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Russian premiere

In Bubble Bath, a simple bathtub becomes the stage for an unusual journey through the history of cinema. From noir and western to horror and slapstick comedy, a century of moving images unfolds in a visual meditation on the hidden poetry of everyday life.

About the director:

Giulia Magno
Italian filmmaker, art historian, and curator based in Rome. Her moving-image works have been exhibited internationally at ICA Miami, the Serpentine Galleries, the National Galleries of Scotland, and the New Museum in New York. As a curator, she has collaborated with institutions including the MAXXI Museum in Rome, ICA London, and the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, curating exhibitions that explore the intersection of film and art. Her short film Exterior Day was presented in the 2023 edition of the In Silico programme.

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Russian premiere

An experimental documentary about the sun: from tanning salons and sunburns to energy production. Its protagonist is an everyday yet magical phenomenon, both a source of life and a formidable danger.

About the director:

Jörn Staeger
Born in 1965 in Berlin, he is a German filmmaker with over 30 years of experience in the film industry. Since 1979, he has created around 40 short films of his own. After studying at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg (1984–1991), where he earned a degree in Visual Communication/Film, he specialized in working as a cinematographer and filmmaker for TV, theatre, and cinema. Since 1990, Jörn has also run the production company Staeger-Film, which focuses on innovative and artistic film productions. His short film Standing Up – Forgotten competed in the 2011 In Silico section of Message to Man.

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About the director:

Nikita Spiridonov
Artist, composer, curator, and founder of the u/n multitude collective. In the context of the artistic practice of u/n multitude, he explored the political dimension of sound, creating performances and political scores. As a video artist, Spiridonov continues to take historical events as a starting point and investigates the difficulties of memory work along with the ways of remembering. Spiridonov is a participant of numerous exhibitions, including: Orchestras (Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, 2016), Notes for Tomorrow (diverse cities, 2021-2025), Limits of visibility (CCA Winzavod, Moscow, 2025). He participated in the In Silico competition of Message to Man IFF with Volga Song (2020), Dots, Lines and Zigzag (2022) and Meat Grinder 2 (2024). He was a jury member of the In Silico competition in 2023.

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Russian premiere

“The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here”. Abraham Lincoln, 1863. In 1939, a second unit with a double and extras filmed scenes for the Hollywood classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in the Lincoln Memorial. The succession of the sorted-out plan sequences undermines the usual cinematic narration; the plot does not progress here. The neoclassical architecture is merely the setting for a recurring ritual: The inconspicuous protagonist is lost between the pillars of the hall. He often pauses in the face of the monumental Lincoln, as if he himself were freezing into a sculpture.

About the director:

Christoph Girardet
Born in 1966, he is a German video artist and filmmaker. Girardet makes both the accidentally found and the extensively researched found footage from the archives of film history the subject of his art. Montage, omissions, and repetitions reveal the underlying structures and inner mechanisms of cinematic reality. Beyond this analysis of material and its clichés, his work engages with a melancholic sense of absence, creating an individual pictorial world. Girardet’s films were twice showcased in the In Silico competition: Personne (2016) and It Was Still Her Face (2017).

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Russian premiere

An introspective documentary that connects the cinema space, ticket blowups, and the ritual of watching with memories and dreams.

About the director:

Eero Tammi
Born in 1983, he is a Finnish filmmaker and editor whose last three experimental films have premiered in the international competition of the Oberhausen Film Festival. He holds an MA in film editing from Aalto University’s ELO Film School. Tammi has edited numerous works for visual artist Saara Ekström and collaborated with directors such as Zaida Bergroth and Mika Kaurismäki. He has also worked as a screenwriter for Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu and produced through his own company, Ragdoll Film Productions. A former staff editor at Filmihullu magazine, Tammi has also contributed to the Finnish News Agency and YLE Radio 1, and served for five years as a Film Commissioner at the Finnish Film Foundation.