Shown in Compétition #5.
Synopsis
Current instability of climate system impacts ice cores and rises global sea level, as well as changes human life. At the same time only data code of intelligent machines remains constant in the modern geography.
Text from the selection committee
Alexander Isaenko, one of the few contemporary Ukrainian experimental filmmakers, continues his magnificently precise and inventive study of the relationship and cohabitation between body and environment, whether digital or natural. In this new film essay, he submits his images to the image recognition algorithm developed by google, which no longer only recognizes an image, but makes his work appear in the image itself, creating associations that are sometimes very strange, and most of the time of animal origin. The human body of the film is brought, in an abandoned house of a perhaps future or even post-human time, to be then only a block of data, ready to be sculpted. This digital heap, processed by new intelligences, recreates a nature of its own, a new fauna and flora, which no longer has any consistency or definitive form: the boundary between materials is porous, even non-existent, and only movement allows us to differentiate each body.
Translation made by the translator www.DeepL.com/Translator
– T.D.
What is the starting point for your film?
<Hello World> started in post-production Adieu, Corpus!. It was obvious to me that the body would go further into virtual space and of course it loses its identity.
What technique did you use to create it?
I’ve used some google generators : Deepdream (for the image), and Magenta (for the music in the second part). Also used modified text by Bernard Stiegler using Generating the web 2.0 and the voices of robots from the site Oddcast TTS demo.
How long did it take to make your film?
<Hello World> was filmed in an abandoned space. In my opinion it was a school of border guards of the times of the USSR. I think we filmed in the dining room attic. Further transformation took a year and several months.