These short video essays use generative AI tools to creatively transform and interrogate existing films, experimenting with synthetic imagery, AI-generated voices, and algorithmic storytelling. Each work reflects critically on the aesthetics and ideologies of both cinema and artificial intelligence, raising questions about authorship, memory, and the shifting boundaries of audiovisual creation in the age of machine vision.
Algorithmic Borders
by Silvia Cipelletti, Video Essay, 9’ 29’’, 2025
Generative AI is used to explore the border between northern Italy and southern Switzerland, evolving into an exploration of the author’s boundaries toward artificial intelligence.
These video essays explore DVDs not just as containers of films, but as tactile relics of a bygone media culture. Filming the physical interactions with discs from the Accademia library, each work transforms a chosen DVD into a portal for memory, embodiment, and reflection on the material life of cinema.
