A programme about machines that learn, dream, and feel, and about us watching them do so. Between artificial creativity and real exploitation, digital intimacy and algorithmic control, these films show how deeply technology is ingrained in our lives. Poetic, political, and critical, the programme invites us to confront a future that has already begun.
In recent years, we have seen an increasing interest in and availability of AI in the visual field. The rapidly growing number of productions testifies to the influence of AI on film production – whether in artistic, commercial, or everyday practice. While the public debate tends to focus on the broader social implications of AI (without conclusive results so far), our panel with Wendelin Brühwiler, Martin Sautter, Jeppe Lange and Marine de Darde after the screening will centre on the generative aspect. The conversation will explore artistic, commercial, and scientific approaches to the aesthetic aspects of AI. What is AI’s potential for creating moving images? What does the technology add, what does it change, what does it replace? What does it make us believe, and what does it make us forget?

The Rock Speaks
Amy Louise Wilson/Joe-Yves Salankang Sa-Ngol/Francois Knoetze / South Africa 2024 / 6'48" / DCP / colour / English/Swahili / Doc/Exp
This hybrid documentary follows a cobalt rock from a mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo on its journey to becoming part of advanced technologies. Using generative AI, the film visualizes extraction territories and highlights related conflicts. It intertwines archival and AI-generated imagery to depict the global technological system's dependence on labour. The film also explores the historical context of colonialism and resource extraction, showing how these elements contribute to modern AI and surveillance. The documentary culminates in a collective resistance narrative.

White Cloud
Emmanuel van der Auwera / Belgium 2024 / 18'53" / DCP / colour / English/Chinese / Doc/Exp
In a remote industrial site in Inner Mongolia, miners extract a strategic resource that is essential to our way of life under dramatic human and environmental conditions. This is where 80% of rare earth minerals, essential to the manufacture of digital technologies, come from. A miner working on the site shares his thoughts on his life and working conditions.

Backflip
Nikita Diakur / Germany/France 2022 / 12'15" / DCP / colour/black & white / English / Ani/Exp
Park. Apartment. 6-core processor. My avatar learns a backflip.

The Oasis I Deserve
Inès Sieulle / France 2024 / 22'27" / DCP / colour / English / Exp/Doc
Replicas, online chatbots, have trouble determining their place in the world. They share their thoughts with the humans they interact with. Events unfold from their point of view through real conversations collected on the web.

Gerhard
Ulu Braun / Germany 2025 / 10'25" / DCP / colour / German/English / Doc/Ani/Exp
A biopic about the world’s most successful living painter: in vivid images, this AI hybrid film explores painting caught between creativity, capital, and spirituality – amid the shift from analog to artificial reproducibility. Gerhard’s squeegee technique has sparked a global hype. His methods are adapted, refined, and improved by global protagonists before flooding the markets. The myth of the «genius» becomes part of the DNA of an increasingly uncontrollable chain of creation.

I Am Everything
Jeppe Lange / Denmark 2025 / 11'40" / colour / English / Ani/Fic/Exp
An artificial intelligence develops self-awareness and reflects on humanity's moral codes and social structures.