Scientists now discover new evidence to reconstruct the ecology of A.D.2021

Wenqing Yao

4'

2021

China

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Mode Collapse

David Witzling

4'

2021

United States

A broken machine learning algorithm hallucinates flowers with increasing abstraction during the Spring 2020 pandemic lockdown.

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Cabo Tuna or The Management of the Sky

Unidad de Montaje Dialéctico

13'

2021

Mexico

"Cabo Tuna or The Management of the Sky" is a materialistic re-reading of the history of artificial satellites and digital surveillance which, using footage found exclusively on YouTube, intertwines the origins of the Nazi and Soviet arms industries with the digital surveillance systems used in the Mexican context of the war on drugs. This narrative arc allows for an exploration of the Mexican government's failed attempts to create its own aeronautical rockets, the growing dependence on technology from foreign powers and companies, the privatization of space, and finally, the contemporary strengthening of the state's military control. 

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In no Rush to Get Anywhere

Pepe Sapena

13'

2021

Spain

"I've tried to record myself many times, but I don't like the sound of my voice. Thats's why I asked my sister to use her voice over these images."

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darkness within darkness

Chia-Yun Wu

7'

2021

United Kingdom

The work is a paper made video composed of digital image and physical material that delves into the essence of moving image. It divided the digital video into the film ratio of 24-frames-per-second. Through the transforming process in printing and scanning, the re-composed video is in between movement and stillness, virtual and concrete, digital and material. The contrasts have thus been related to the Oriental philosophy of Taoism, "one body with two sides" (Yin and Yang). With the video, I was trying to visualize the abstract natural law which denies description.

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Enough

Andy Sowerby

2'

2021

United Kingdom

Enough’ (2020) is an intimate portrait of personal thoughts and limiting beliefs. The film represents the inner workings of a mind by giving physicality to mental phenomena through colourful, dynamic 16mm direct animation and digital effects.

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Erica

Wei-Chia Wu

5'

2021

Taiwan

The short film Erica is a near-future narrative which pushes the interrelation between online self (developed through selfie-beautify app), beauty tech (plastic surgery, biomeds...), and automated online interaction. The user, Erica utilizes the beauty prosthesis and dives into a fictive world of online spaces where allow the online avatars to automatically interact with each other, through the data collected by beautify prosthesis wore by users.

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They met under a ceiling of sky

Catriona Gallagher

21'

2021

United Kingdom

A woman goes to an island to stay in the house of a friend. She goes alone to get some headspace on recent events. She has visited this house before, then in company, now in solitude.
A film written, shot and performed solely by the artist, having planned a different film with crew and actors whose arrival by ferry was prevented by high winds. Stranded on the island for 7 days, the artist went ahead with filming anyway, using the only body she had available behind and in front of the camera.

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my favorite software is being here

Alison Nguyen

20'

2021

Not Specified

A piece of speculative fiction, the video tells the story of a simulacral subaltern who has been created by an algorithm and raised by the Internet in isolation in a virtual void.

As she multitasks throughout the day, Andra8 is monitored and surveilled, finding herself overwhelmed by a web of global client demands. Something begins to trouble Andra8: her life depends on her compulsory consumption and output of human data – or so she’s been told. Andra8 explores the implications of such an existence, and what arises when one attempts to subvert them.

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