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Emerging Visions of AI, Art, and Environment

2025 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

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Mismos Puntos

Chrisa Theocharidou

Greece, 2025

20 min 

A cinematic exploration of the many roles society assigns to women, told through iconic scenes from classic films with female protagonists. Stripped of dialogue and reimagined through dance and movement, these moments reveal the unspoken emotions and inner worlds behind each role.

Hesitation

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Heide Cabral Rodriguez Braz

Brazil, 2025

6 min

 

Amidst blows and silences, a boxing ring reveals the hidden dance of virility—where body, cinema, and movement confront, merge, and reinvent themselves.

Imperfect Abortion

Mohammadhassan Asnaei

USA, 2025

5 min 43 secs

"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must destroy a world." — Herman Hesse.

Set to a pulsating electronic score, the film reimagines the hidden journey of life’s beginnings as a cosmic odyssey of struggle, survival, and creation.

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Filthy Growing Chick

Morteza Hashemi & Alireza Labesh

Iran, 2024

15 min

Two officers arrested a girl and a boy for being romantically involved without getting married. They convinced the officers to arrest two other people instead of them. They cooperated with the officers to find two other people while driving around, during which they started judging other people in the street. 

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Machine Talks

Bruno Lasevicius

USA, 2024

4 min 36 secs

Machine Talks introduces an unconventional cast in a highly experimental talk show. Promoting short, incisive conversations about art, humans, and technology, pushing boundaries of traditional dialogue. Powered by Unreal Engine, AI-driven 3D characters take center stage to explore and deconstruct cutting-edge generative artworks. Virtual hosts interview contemporary human artists, investigating their creative processes and uncovering the inspiration behind their work. 

Pharmakon

Kissel Hiram Bravo

Mexico, 2025

7 min 30 secs

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Pharmakon is an experimental work produced through artificial intelligence, photogrammetry, and real-time digital processes. It explores a world where technology and the superstructure that governs it are both poison and cure. In the age of the simulacrum, the real dissolves, subjectivity fractures, and our desires no longer belong to us. A visual journey into the heart of a remedy that also makes us ill.

Dïàtriba

Enrico Iannaccone

Italy, 2025

13 min 16 secs

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Can the perfection of technological artifice compensate for the organic imperfection of lost love?

 

A woman attempts to replace her ex-boyfriend with an artificial clone, but the machine's excessive subservience confronts her with a need she had forgotten in her desire to magically alter her life: dialectic engagement, confrontation, debate.

Proudly supported by Western University, through the Western Sustainable Impact Fund, and the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies.

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