AI International Film Festival

TRESDANCING, FREQUENCY, OMNIA + Shorts - Block 6 - 5/13/23 12 Noon

Expired August 31, 2023 6:00 PM
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9 films in package
#TRESDANCING
#TRESDANCING: Canada. 22min - a near future fiction narrative, speculates on the effects of escalating surveillance and control through AI educational technology.
Frequency
FREQUENCY: Poland. 16min. routine evening of a young babysitter turns into a nightmare when AI system supervising the house begins to receive secret commands from someone who is dissatisfied with her presence in this house.
OMNIA
OMNIA: Germany. 30 min. A film which follows a young woman and her fight against regime that is control of everyones lives.
The Old Rogue (Episode One)
THE OLD ROGUE: USA. 6min. A film which follows an elderly expatriate returning to the USA only to discover that technology has changed his reality.
Snow Must Fall
SNOW MUST FALL: USA. 9min. When robbing a coffee shop, a rebellious teenager must force a stubborn robot cashier to give her the cash before the police get there.
Extraterrestrial Message, made with AI
EXTRATERRESTRIAL MESSAGE: Canada. 3min. AI Animation: Captain Daria discovers people & landscapes when an extraterrestrial civilization messages her.
Speed Up (or The History Of Human Inventions)
SPEED UP: UK. 4min. A mesmerizing AI-generated short animation audio/visual movie that takes the audience on a breathless journey through time, showcasing the incredible inventions that have defined human history.
Sanatorium
SANATORIUM: USA. 13min. Jethro is a young man happily speeding through his youth, but when his reality starts to literally fall apart around him, he has to make a hard decision that'll affect the time he has left.
no-body
NO-BODY: Netherlands. 6min. challenges us to think about where AI is leading us, with lyrics by ChatGPT and voice by HAL9000.

A routine evening of a young babysitter turns into a real nightmare when the AI system supervising the house begins to receive the secret commands of someone, or something, who is clearly dissatisfied with her presence in this house.


"Frequency" is a combination of supernatural horror themes with the SF genre in the style of "Black Mirror", coming from our passion for horror films based on an intriguing mystery and fascinating dark force as main opponent, as well as our interest in the subject of AI and new technologies.


By creating this story, we wanted to offer fans of these genres a good time, by holding on to the framework of accepted conventions, although under the surface of the main storyline, this film also touches the universal and socially important aspects related to the technological revolution accelerating around us.


Particularly it is our fear, or at least a growing anxiety, of new technologies and their interference in our everyday life - technologies that see, hear and often know more about us than ourselves, slowly turning into new, mysterious, omnipotent "black boxes", the principles of operation of which no one fully understands, although they increasingly determine many aspects of our lives.


Moreover, in the modern, digitized world, it is not the traditional séances of spiritualism, curses and other old-style para-religious practices, but new technologies that may soon become the new gateway to our imagination through which various irrational fears about the world and reality will pass, not only the "paranormal".


We live in unprecedented times, where progress and technological change are gaining momentum, changing our lives in the most unpredictable places and areas. I am one of those people who predict that the advancing technological revolution will significantly contribute to replacing human work with artificial intelligence algorithms combined with robotization. So it turns out that even the ancient "profession" of a spiritualist medium will not be able to avoid the threat of automation!

  • Year
    2022
  • Language
    Polish
  • Country
    Poland
  • Director
    Aleksander Szeser
  • Screenwriter
    Aleksander Szeser
  • Producer
    Agnieszka Papiewska
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