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SAUDADE, 31min., Portugal, Dance/Experimental
Directed by Sandra Cristina Pires Lopes, Sandra Ramy, Equis Alfonso Valdes, Inti Herrera
Portugal & Cuba, two cultures separated by the ocean.
The intimate relationship that each one maintains with the sea has been the link. This sea has made us look at each other.
The relationship with the distant, the unattainable and with the earth, has returned us to a space of understanding of the human.
This piece asks: What is recorded in the land of the one who leaves for the sea? What's left in which part of what leaves on the ground? What is Saudade?

METAPHYSICAL RECLAMATIONS, 13min., USA, Animation/Experimental
Directed by Mary Flanagan
Metaphysical Reclamations is an experimental short created entirely with raw AI-Generated imagery. To create the video I rendered nearly one hundred thousand unique images related to city centers and skyscrapers fused with natural scenes and trees. My aim is to consider the anthropocene by collaborating with an artificial intelligence. I engineer prompts that draws from a pattern language determined by word-to-image keyword associations culled from massive datasets for AI training, and whatever results I have gotten -- sometimes cut short because I was pushed off shared machine cycles for Silicon Valley projects. As a tactician interested in the collaborative process of working with code as a form of speculative research practice, I aim to document trajectories, good and bad matches, bizarre sequences, errors and glitches and render these in time based media. The sounds emerge from a variety of natural and technologically mediated sources.

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