How does artificial intelligence see the world? And how does it interpret and process what it sees? ALT/KINO presents a programme of experimental films and artists’ moving image that explores non-human perspectives and seeks to capture what it might be like to attempt to understand existence at just such a remove.

As the discourse becomes ever more infatuated with the output of machine learning, this selection of films seeks to understand how what it yields is a reaction to what data has been fed into it. Ranging from the reflections of a machine poet about human-shot footage to the existential musings of a self-driving car, this programme wonders what is going on in the mind of an A.I. as it observes, processes, interacts with and, ultimately, remakes the world.

All films captioned for d/Deaf viewers.

Programme:

A.I. Poetries of Female and Non-Female Beings in Gas Stations at Night, dir. Cristina Iliescu, 2022, 18'
Traces of Things, dir. Anna Ridler, 2018, 10'
Hysteresis, dir. Robert Seidel, 2021, 5'
3 Dialogues About the Future, dir. Alina Manolache, 2022, 14'
Backflip, dir. Nikita Diakur, 2022, 13'
Theta, dir. Lawrence Lek, 2022, 12'
EONS, dir. Mike Tyka, 2020, 3'