Neither Artificial

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Nor Inteligent

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Neither Artificial 〰️ Nor Inteligent 〰️

Artificial intelligence today is not an attempt to attack art, as it is often perceived. It's a tool that can be used to study human weaknesses, history, astronomy, art, or entire genres, including road movies. KISFF's selection should be seen as a filmmakers’ attempt to understand their worldview with the help of artificial intelligence.


Screening duration: 78 min

The films are screened in OV with Ukrainian and English subtitles

Films are available online in Ukraine


November 17, 20:30, Zhovten Cinema, Classic hall
Konstantinovskaya St, 26

November 18, 20:30, KINO 42, Konstantinovskaya St, 11B

November 21, 18:25, Zhovten Cinema, Classic hall
Konstantinovskaya St, 26

Program films

  • Director Nanut Thanapornrapee has released a series of short films reflecting on the history of the 20th century in his native Taiwan. The themes set for the GPT-3 chat range from the imagined division of the country in A Tale of Two Tailands to revolutions in Dawn of 1932 and its sequel Payback of 2010.

    All of the films begin with the eponymous This Story is Auto-generated, which sets the rhythm and announces that the viewer is in front of an unusual film project. Nanut uses video games (Bioshock in particular) to visualize ideas generated by Chat GPT-3 at his request, and dialogues are voiced by the synthesized voices of Rick and Morty, Peter Griffin, and Donald Trump.

  • Director Jeppe Lange has shown interest in topics that interest artificial intelligence. Why doesn't AI pay attention to emotions, scale, and context? Instead, machines focus on finding similarities between patterns, colors, and correlations. AI is already working on algorithms to choose comfortable clothes, a good movie, or delicious food for its users. Lange's feed also consists of AI suggestions — 10,000 images found using Google's reverse image search.

  • The artist Chris Peters spent two days introducing artificial intelligence to Jean-Luc Godard's filmography and then asked it to create a poem that the audience would hear on the film's voiceover. This poem is the basis of the film's conventional plot, which demonstrates the diversity of the human world. The video, shot by Peters on a 16mm Bolex camera, creates a contrast between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and an old camera and also honors the memory of the great experimental filmmakers of the past.

  • The film reveals the story of a police patrol car traveling through an abandoned fictional city, discussing the crisis of existence, the causes of decline, and the ability to have compassion with a built-in artificial intelligence psychotherapist. It looks like an episode of the Need for Speed game, which is supposedly created by artificial intelligence with the task of watching all of Noah Baumbach's films. However, the director claims that he was inspired by road movies, which he uses to explore the question: "Do androids really dream of electric sheep?".

  • The film shows robots observing human situations and trying (not without envy) to understand what it means to be human. They analyze faces through algorithmic codes, and identify emotions but remain unable to realize that human mistakes, love, and friendship are not something that can be measured, even for humans themselves. The future of robot dialogues remains uncertain, but their observations are fascinating.

  • Imagine that you injured your toe while performing a backflip. The injury is so serious that you have to give up performing tricks forever. However, you want to know if your body is capable of repeating a similar trick without getting injured again. Using artificial intelligence technologies, German filmmaker Nikita Diakur creates a virtual recreation of a backflip by visualizing the space on the street and in his home. This process took three years of his life.

Text: Yuriy Samusenko

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