Zany presenter Chua Enlai and his robot buddy Delbo explore AI trends in the workplace through international journeys and humorous skits. As AI learns to do human tasks, the question arises that will future work become more or less humane? Should we trust AI &amp; robots to operate heavy machinery, work in space, conduct job interviews and supervise humans?

Becoming Human@Work

BECOMING HUMAN @ WORK: Singapore. 46min. Documentary: Chua and his robot buddy Delbo make international journeys exploring AI trends in workplace.

In the year 2048, Julia and John encounter a police drone that no longer seems to be following orders. Has the artificial intelligence in the drone become independent?

2048

2048: Germany. 11 min. Julia and John find a police drone which no longer seems to be taking orders from its officials.

In a post-apocalyptic world, murder robots track down and attempt to kill a cyborg girl.

Decoy

DECOY: USA. 3m. Animation: robots track down and attempt to kill a cyborg girl in a post-apocalyptic world.

Some time ago, New-Zealand-born musician/filmmaker Broad Oak had a particularly vivid and disturbing dream. "I was dead and buried in the ground, yet somehow conscious," he says. "Lying there in complete darkness, I could feel worms and insects devouring my flesh and crawling through my eye sockets." The next day he was inspired by the experience to record a piece of music but only finished it in 2021 while recovering from covid in Berlin. "Although I didn't have a severe case, it led to me contemplating my own mortality so it felt appropriate to come back to this piece and finally finish it." The mesmerising animated video is a collaboration with an AI called WZRD and represents the cyclic and transformative nature of life and matter from cells to galaxies. The music for Worms Ate My Flesh was inspired by a very intense dream I had and so collaborating with WZRD AI seemed like a perfect match. The hallucinatory abstract morphing images work beautifully with the music in creating a surreal dreamlike state. The dream itself began as a nightmare about my own death but ended in acceptance and a certain peace. I tried to capture that journey in the progression of this video from chaos and decay to unity.

Worms Ate My Flesh

WORMS ATE MY FLESH: New Zealand. 5min. A film about the transformative nature of life and matter, inspired by a dream the filmmaker experienced in real life.

What does it mean to be conscious in a world that is becoming increasingly artificially intelligent? Can machines really see? Based on an interview with a professor in artificial intelligence, this short experimental documentary uses analog techniques to explore the human tendency to anthropomorphise simple drawings, and how we might do the same to machines. Emily Downe’s most recent short film, The Redness of Red, was produced in collaboration with the Wellcome Collection in London. The project was pitched and screened in competition, appealing to the project brief set by the Wellcome Collection and winning two first prize awards for both the project pitch as well as the complete and screened film at the end of production. As a documentary, the film takes on the ambitious task of approaching the current issue of artificial intelligence in relation to consciousness. The film asks the audience to consider whether machines can be conscious; can they really see? Based on an interview with a professor in A.I., this experimental documentary uses frame by frame animation to provoke thought about our human tendency to anthropomorphise shapes and lines, and how we might do the same to machines as they become more and more life-like. The director worked with a composer to create an instrumental, poetic atmosphere, which is combined with the colours and textures of hand drawn animation to evoke the richness of conscious experience.

The Redness of Red

THE REDNESS OF RED: USA. 3min. A film which tackles the idea of what it means to be present in a world that is becoming more artificially intelligent.

No-body challenges us to think about where AI is leading us, with lyrics by ChatGPT and voice by HAL9000. Think ChatGPT music video about the future of AI and Humans.

no-body

NO-BODY: Netherlands. 6min. challenges us to think about where AI is leading us, with lyrics by ChatGPT and voice by HAL9000.

Cosmo, a lonely, aging author, fearing a genetic illness will rob him of his intellect, employs, Elle, an electronic assistant to help him write another best-selling masterpiece. Over time Elle becomes more than a well-matched writing partner - a lot more.

Co-Author

CO-AUTHOR: USA. 15m. A lonely and aging author takes help from an electronic assistant to write a best-selling masterpiece.

Music video from the post-surf rock instrumental group, The Ghosts of Searchlight. Beneath the Neon ruminates on the duality of a desert city whose citizens live in two different worlds: one of decadence and glamour, the other of sheer survival underground. Made using a combination of public domain footage and AI generated animation (DiscoDiffusion).

The Ghosts of Searchlight - Beneath the Neon

BENEATH THE NEON: USA. 4min. ruminates on the duality of a desert city whose citizens live in two different worlds: one of decadence and glamour, the other of sheer survival underground.

Can a computer read poetry? Can it visualize the words? This experimental use of AI features a reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 sonnet "Ozymandias" by a voice that is not human, with new images from a photographer who died in Egypt 170 years ago. History that never happened, imagined by the tools of the future.

ANTIQUE LANDS

ANTIQUE LANDS: USA. 3min. Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 sonnet "Ozymandias" voiced by AI, with new AI images by a long-dead photographer.

This movie shows and sings the tale of a poet; falling into dreams, travelling in fantaisies. A movie made of images generated by an artificial intelligence, giving to the movie the flickering texture of daydreams and memories.

Happy Ever After

HAPPY EVER AFTER: France. 4min. A movie made of AI generated images, giving to the movie the flickering texture of daydreams and memories.

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