{"id":37470,"date":"2025-10-12T18:15:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/?p=37470"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:27:57","slug":"2025-in-silico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/message2man.com\/en\/2025-in-silico\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikhail Zheleznikov speaks about the programme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mikhail<\/a><\/p>\n

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Last year, we showcased films created with neural networks in the now nearly legendary special section Kiberglaz<\/i><\/a>. This year, entries involving artificial intelligence in one form or another make up a good half of the competition. Soon, AI-generated video will appear as authentic as \u201creal\u201d cinema, and the choice between a documentary and a fiction lens will become purely stylistic for filmmakers.<\/p>\n

Will this revolutionary development erode our trust in the documentary? How will the boundary between documentary and fiction imagery shift? What will become of all the previously established movements and genres\u2014will they be transformed by new technology, or preserved in their traditional form? Will 2025 be the last year of experimental cinema, as one colleague quipped, or, given everything unfolding around us, perhaps even the last episode of our \u201cfilm\u201d altogether?<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s In Silico<\/i> Competition, now in its 15th edition, presents 20 films. Over the years, this section has featured both established and emerging artists. Among this year\u2019s participants are many familiar names: Ana\u00efs Ibert, Nikita Spiridonov, Christoph Girardet, Christine Lucy Latimer, Giulia Magno, Carlos Velandia and Angelica Restrepo\u2014all of whom have contributed to the experimental competition over the recent years\u2014as well as two filmmakers, Nicolas Schmidt and J\u00f6rn Staeger, who showed their works in the very first In Silico<\/i> back in 2011.<\/p>\n

Andrea Gatopoulos, who last year led Kiberglaz<\/i><\/a> as tutor and contributor and previously attended In Silico<\/i> as a producer, now joins the competition for the first time as a director. Mikhail Basov, former participant and jury member in the experimental film section, presents his retrospective at the Festival this year, while another of our past entrants, Platon Infante, now serves on the experimental jury.<\/p>\n

Growing complexity and unpredictability of the world, nostalgia for both past and future, fear, disappointment, hope\u2014these themes resonate throughout the programme, while those left off-screen echo through their very absence. Like a children\u2019s colouring book, the In Silico<\/i> programme offers a dotted outline one may trace in the imagination\u2014or leave as it is.<\/p>\n

Mikhail Zheleznikov<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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