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The Endless

Log line: a speculative sensory ethnography film generated from AI models in the act of interpreting humans and vice versa. We become the digital fly-on-the-wall exploring a new, strange digital culture.

Description: The Endless is a speculative sensory ethnography film generated from AI models in the act of interpreting humans. Alien landscapes and 3D models are constructed through the eyes of a machine that roams through a visual thought pattern. The film excavates the visual artifacts of interpolation of AI - the act of neural nets filling in missing visual information with surrounding environmental data. Simultaneously, it seemingly produces a new type of –or an alien form of– human culture.

The 3D models and objects throughout the film were produced from a series of artistic experiments with AI neural networks and recognition bias from 2018-2022. The film explores the digital terrain as if filming a fly-on-the-wall encounter with an unknown world. In this way, the Endless is a recursive loop between humans interpreting AI-generated images and vice versa. The result is a digital sensory journey through an alien culture in a phantasmagoric landscape.

  • Yvette Granata
    Director
  • Yvette Granata
    Producer
  • Johannes Pardi
    Virtual Cinematography, Editor, and Sound Design
  • Kvn Boy
    3D Modelers
  • Yvette Granata
    3D Modelers
  • Single Vertex
    3D Modelers
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 16 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 3, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Beijing International Short Film Festival
    Beijing
    China
    November 28, 2022
    International Premiere
  • Denver Underground Film Festival
    Denver
    United States
    November 22, 2022
    US Premiere
    1st Place, Best Digital Experimental Film
Director Biography - Yvette Granata

Yvette Granata is media artist and scholar. She works across multiple media to create immersive installations, interactive environments, VR films, video art, and hypothetical technological systems. She writes about media theory, philosophy, and digital media culture. Her work has been exhibited at the Harvard Carpenter Center for the Arts, The Eye Film Institute in Amsterdam, The Kunsthalle of Media and Light Art in Detroit, Papy Gyro Nights in Norway and Hong Kong, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center in Buffalo, among others. She has published in Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy, Trace Journal, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies and AI & Society. Her film design work has appeared on screens at the Sundance film festival, Tribeca film festival, Rotterdam, Berlinale, Rome International Film Fest, SXSW, and CPH:PIX. She also produced the hybrid documentary, City World (2012) which premiered internationally at CPH:DOX and won best documentary at Cinema on the Edge in LA.

She holds a Phd in Media Study from SUNY Buffalo, a Masters from the University of Amsterdam, and a BA from University of Michigan.

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