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AI FILMS

Sebastiano Vitale SALT LAKE PROJECT (USA, 5 minutes)
The project brings the audience into the brain and imagination of AI. A fictional story that instigates the audience to think about AI under different perspectives. A spectacular journey into a possible future. In partnership with the Leonardo museum.

Dan Trimarchi LOVE & LETHAL ENDINGS (USA, 3 minutes)
Orlando Mendes MONSTER ISLAND (USA, 6 minutes)
RatatouAI, Samarieta.flare, AiXenia FIASCO (USA, 9 minutes)

Kosmas Giannoutakis NICK LAND’S MELTDOWN AI-FICATION (USA, 59 minutes)
This project vivifies by means of AI-generated audiovisual media the seminal essay ‘Meltdown’ (1995) written by the “father of accelerationism,” controversial philosopher Nick Land. This early accelerationist essay speculates a technocapital singularity that leads to an AI apocalypse that renders humanity obsolete. All sentences of the text are used as prompts for text-to-image, text-to-video, and text-to-music/sound ML models.

DOCUMENTARIES

Rinaldo Cavanese CASA SWEET CASA (USA, 7 minutes)
Claire Read PENN F’ING STATION (USA, 30 minutes)

SHORT FILMS

Glenda Pezuela MOOD (USA, 4 minutes)
Evan Patrick Adams THE MAN IN THE BLUE SUIT (USA, 6 minutes)
Melaina Laurent THE REAPPEARANCE OF JOY (USA, 9 minutes)
Ann Marie Martin BAPTISM (USA, 11 minutes)
Yunyi Zhu PROMISES, PROMISES (China, 14 minutes)
Jenna Rossman START THEM YOUNG (USA, 15 minutes)
Anthony Marinelli WHY I HAD TO KILL YOU WHILE YOU SLEPT (USA, 16 minutes)
Donny Bianchi CHIRPED (USA, 18 minutes)
Dexter Strong Bueli SOUTH SHORE (USA, 18 minutes)
Jahanshah Vafaeisefat THE PAINTER (USA, 19 minutes)
Quinn Sheehan-Hippie THE BOTANISTS (USA, 20 minutes)
Teddy Kirdy PATIENT PATIENT (USA, 29 minutes)

FEATURE

Virginia Yearick POSSUM KINGDOM (USA, 94 minutes)
On a run down family farm in the America South, three generations of white boys kill time in living rooms, open fields, and shallow water.