Distrust Everything

Distrust Everything is a call to imagination as a way out to the realism burdening our language and experience.

American artist Mirek Hardiker, former Stanford researcher, has built a gigantic (21 years on a daily base) archive of transcripts
of his dreams, which serve as a dataset. A generative neural network system 'reads' Hardiker's reports and generates new dreams from what is learnt from the dataset. The generated text serves as a screenplay for the entire film. Archetypal
characters and events thus seem to emerge from a
synthetic unconscious.

The work investigates the relationship between the human and unconscious through an intense and perturbing aesthetic experience. Born as a multichannel installation, the work was co-commissioned by a platform of institutions, including Elevate Festival and Superbudda.

  • Francesco D'Abbraccio
    Director
    Adversarial Feelings, A 1000 Steps
  • Karol Sudolski
    Director
  • Francesco D'Abbraccio
    Writer
    Adversarial Feelings, A 1000 Steps
  • Project Type:
    Other
  • Genres:
    New Weird, AI Film
  • Runtime:
    23 minutes 21 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 30, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    40,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Abandon Normal Devices
    Manchester
    United Kingdom
    March 7, 2023
    Official Selection
  • Lev Festival Gijon
    Gijon
    Spain
    May 1, 2024
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Francesco D'Abbraccio, Karol Sudolski

π—Ÿπ—Όπ—Ώπ—²π—Ί is the transmedial project by visual artist and musician Francesco D'Abbraccio. Through the use of neural networks, CGI and digital technologies, he designs audiovisual environments with a strong narrative connotation. Lorem's identity oscillates between the individual dimension and the collective experience, thanks to ongoing collaborations with digital artist Karol Sudolski (co-director of the recent installation Distrust Everything), Mirek Hardiker, and to occasional encounters with external artists and researchers.

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