CN: Films in this program work with light effects that can trigger photosensitive people.
Database maintenance, grocery shopping and cooking food, feeding algorithms, cooling down fears, repairing what’s broken, filling in cracks, keeping history. All in all, care taking seems to maintain its vigorous hunger for time, annoying stressors, stubborn appendages of glamorous technological advances. In the films of the program they dilate time, repeat itself, flicker. And eventually they stop to be a mere disruption. They become the thing in which we recognize ourselves. (Theresa George)
After retiring from the People's Liberation Army in China, an officer relocates to a Buddhist monastery. There, he is tasked with managing the temple’s thousands of keys – but matching them seems impossible. Leveraging his computer science expertise, he attempts to establish a perfect key management system. Meanwhile, his daughter films his silhouette. The two exist in close proximity, yet every opportunity for communication remains unspoken.
… >>>Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). LaMDA was designed to create chat bots that interact with humans. Lemoine’s interview led him to conclude the AI was sentient. When he made the claim publicly, he was fired.
… >>>“In Kohlberger’s second film (…) the artist fashions a dystopian fiction from the remnants of cinema’s past. Drawing on excerpts from obscure sci-fi films, THE ELECTRIC KISS imagines a world not unlike our own, in which people plug their brains into a kind of neuro-network that connects the whole of human consciousness. As cyberpunk imagery draped in VHS textures alternates with passages of prismatic visual noise (…), a quasi-plot emerges: a man in a VR headset (…) subjects himself to a mysterious procedure to alleviate the ill effects of this new technology on the mind.” (Jordan Cronk)
… >>>While cooking, Yaxuan notices that her pot makes a peculiar sound. That sound generates a wandering around food rituals, which appear as a bridge between past and present.
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