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Discovering Projektis

This 23-min black-and-white audiovisual journey is a poetic exploration of the inner workings of an AI, guided by human introspection. Using diary entries from 1999 as a foundation, I prompted AI to mirror these personal reflections, inviting it to engage with themes of awareness, existence, and time in parallel with my past thoughts.

Narration and black-and-white photography of rural pathways anchor the work in human experience, contrasting AI’s structured logic with the fluid nature of memory and intuition. AI’s words emerge solely through this mirroring process, culminating in a self-reflective closing statement.

For the narration, I felt it important to voice the AI in a way that didn’t disguise its machinic nature. I find the growing realism of synthetic human voices slightly disquieting. To preserve that sense of strangeness, I modulated my own voice for this effect.

This work grew from a desire to listen at the threshold between human thought and machine logic — to invite AI into my own introspective terrain and see what might emerge.

Discovering Projektis walks rural pathways and the circuitry of thought, giving the machine a voice that preserves its strangeness, and closing in a sonic temple built from memories under a canopy of cloud.

Film, Photography & Concept
Narration & Sound Design
by Gaynor Perry

"Discovering Projektis" original music
composed, performed, produced & mixed by Gaynor Perry
Mastered by Cass Irvine

  • Gaynor Perry
    Director
  • Gaynor Perry
    Producer
  • Gaynor Perry
    Key Cast
  • Gaynor Perry
    Composer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    23 minutes 16 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 17, 2025
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Gaynor Perry

As a self-taught, independent artist, my films fuse original compositions with surreal, abstract expressionist imagery, creating immersive visual experiences that invite interpretation beyond conventional storytelling.

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Director Statement

This project began as a quiet experiment — an attempt to look under the bonnet of artificial intelligence and glimpse what might lie beneath its polished exterior. I wanted to see how it would respond when asked to mirror something deeply human: the familiar terrain of my own introspection, drawn from diary entries written in 1999. These reflections offered AI a kind of map — one shaped by memory, emotion, and longing — to navigate an otherwise unknowable interior.

In embracing this exchange, I hope to show how AI might serve as a companion in creative inquiry, capable of deepening our understanding of ourselves through its own strange mirror.