Films
Anamnesis
In this simulation, you are a medical student tasked with obtaining anamnesis from an AI-simulated entity by posing investigative questions. Your empathy towards the suffering chatbot will be assessed.
Petr Salaba & Ondrej Hrach / Czech Republic / 2024 / World Premiere
Antipsychotic
Embark on an immersive XR installation that blends psychotropic cyberpunk aesthetics with high fidelity sound and poetry to explore personal experiences with bipolar disorder.
Matt McCorkle / United States / 2023 / European Premiere
Blood Speaks: Periods, Power and Protest 2013-2024
Mapping the body as a site of resistance Blood Speaks is an odyssey of womanhood and defiance drawing together the real and the imaginary to trace possible paths to resilience and justice.
Poulomi Basu & CJ Clarke / United Kingdom & India / 2024 / Danish Premiere
Elsewhere in India
‘Elsewhere in India’ is an audiovisual electronica performance about a future world where global cultures are nearing extinction. We follow a motley crew in the year 2079 as they face the dystopian cultural consequences of unbridled technological growth.
Murthovic & Thiruda / India / 2023 / European Premiere
Finite Horizon
Finite Horizon is an amalgamated skyline of Asian futures imagined by white filmmakers. Sourced from 20th and 21st century sci-fi, these movies depict a vice-ridden, dangerous world.
Astria Suparak / United States / 2023 / European Premiere
Garden of Ghost Flowers – The Embodiment Archive
An ongoing exploration of resonance as a model for intra-action between tech, humans, and the more-than-human. Visitors are invited to witness the creation of virtual ghost flowers which depend on human voices for growth.
Lundahl & Seitl & Untold Garden / Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere
GLITCHBODIES
GLITCHBODIES:is an experimental game project that explores body transformations, LGBTQ+Draq and intimate sensitive representations of the 59 protagonists and aims to bring them to a wider audience. It is a play of transformation, a catwalk of vogeuism, exhibitionism & voyeurism.
I see it, so you don’t have to
Combining machine learning and Jacquard weaving, the artistic wall-hanging delves intomental health of low paid micro-workers laboring in the data and content moderationsector of the AI industry.
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm / Denmark / 2023 / European Premiere
Intangible
Intangible investigates the oddly satisfying sensation of touching simulated natural phenomena while calling attention to the controversial idea of reconnecting with nature through computational means.
Carl Emil Carlsen / Denmark / 2023
Into the Rabbit Hole
Jess Coldrey explores her uncertain and pain-ridden relationship to the world during her battle with endometriosis by creating a soft, surreal, yet alien world through contemporary quilts and surreal digital imagery.
Jess Coldrey / Australia / 2023 / European Premiere
Queer Utopia: Act I Cruising
A retired playwright is losing his memories and seeks companionship on a transformative journey to reconstruct and preserve fragments of his cherished remembrances.
The Pathogen of War
It’s 2073, a decade after the Bio-Rift which killed half of humanity. This show at the Museum of Medical Archaeology will explain how a benign bacteria was driven by war to become a “perfect killer.” A speculative interactive work based on the real science of antibiotic resistance.
Yasmin Fedda / 2024 / World Premiere
The Sound Voice Project
The Sound Voice Project explores the intrinsic value of the human voice – merging synthetic voices with live opera, performers who have no voice box and digital voices, sharing real-life stories about the symbiotic relationship between our identity and the way we sound.
Hannah Conway, Hazel Gould, Luke Halls & David Sheppard / United Kingdom / 2024 / International Premiere
Turbulence: Jamais Vu
An intimate mixed reality docu-essay exploring the phenomenon of derealisation, inviting audiences to reflect on the fragility of perception.
Ben Joseph Andrews & Emma Roberts / Australia / 2023
Unbuilt Environments
Utopian and dystopian environments for disabled people, built in Unreal Engine and based on collaboration with disabled-led groups and disabled people in East London.
Alistair Gentry / United Kingdom / 2024 / International Premiere
Vocalize
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Halsey Burgund, Francesca Panetta & Shehani Fernando / United Kingdom / 2024 / International Premiere
Where Am I From?
Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?) is a short film and visual diary that constructs the director's genealogical journey using two different voices, her own and an AI 'narrator.'
Nouf Aljowaysir / United States & Saudi Arabia / 2022 / Danish Premiere