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cricri sora ren
Germany, Russia, China | 2024 | 74’
International Competition 2024
One initial hypothesis would be ‘what would a world generated by Artificial Intelligence look like?’ And the second hypothesis: aren't we already there? How can we find our way around? Starting from this premise, Cricri sora ren, the duo formed by Christian von Borries (The Dubai in me, FID 2010) and AI, examines our world and the political fantasies that permeate it, focusing on three geographically concrete locations: so-called Communist China, Berlin and, as the centre of gravity, Putin's post-2022 Russia in wartime. We find ourselves caught up in a dystopian historical-hysteria (our world?), in a maelstrom of images, the work of social media and video games. A very real world where AI and propaganda go hand in hand. A slippery world where, thanks to computer-generated images, von Borries, in his own way, compacts the same two moments as Putin, who compresses 1945-2022 into an intoxicating short circuit of time. But make no mistake: the two worlds, virtual and real, are more than interconnected. In this whirlwind, using AI-generated voices, texts and images, even the director finds himself swallowed up. However, as a good moralist, he exaggerates and points out the confusions, involutions and contaminations from one world to another. The result is a ‘film about the homogenisation of behaviour’, which he invites us to consider in the light of Walter Benjamin's famous saying that ‘there is no document of culture that is not at the same time a document of barbarism’. ‘But could this also be a world,’ rejoices Cricri sora ren, ‘where the notion of authorship has disappeared? And where, at last, AI could produce results where utopias have failed?’ We have been warned.
Nicolas Feodoroff
In the presence of the filmmaker.
Projection moderated by Cyril Neyrat, Artistic Director of FIDMarseille, and l'Atelier des artistes en exil.
Date: 28.05.2025 at 8 pm
Place: FID office, Marseille
14 All. Léon Gambetta 13001
Booking by email welcome@fidmarseille.org
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Since 2023, in partnership with L'Atelier des artistes en exil, FIDMarseille has invited filmmakers living in exile to select 9 films in competition during the festival, which will then be screened in Marseille. These screenings are followed by a discussion between the filmmakers and the artists.
Further information about L'Atelier des artistes en exil