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Synopsis

A kaleidoscopic compilation film about biogenetics, 3D printers and new models of artificial intelligence, which raises questions about new forms of virtual life. When virtual, non-living objects become self-aware beings, capable of touching humans both emotionally and physically, AI will have come of age.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018

Details

Year: 2018
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 8 mins
Director: Henna-Riikka Halonen
Producer: Henna-Riikka Halonen

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Finland, UK coproduction

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Sales Company

AV-arkki - The Distribution Centre For Finnish Media Art

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A poetic memoir and political report, shot in Berlin and Leipzig, and in landscapes around the British Isles. The film’s narrative builds out from the events of the Reichstag Fire in Berlin in 1933 in which the pioneering German-Jewish sound recordist, Ludwig Koch, on whom the film ultimately centres, plays a minor role, placing him and his family in danger. The film is structured in two parts, juxtaposing Koch’s persecution in Nazi Germany with his experiences as a refugee recording bird song and other sounds in Britain. <br /> The film’s images of contemporary urban and rural terrains, and of objects and documents, create a collision between past and present. Shifts in time are further emphasised through the use of Koch’s original sound recordings from Germany and Britain which feature throughout the film.

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