Image of movie A.I. At War
Image of movie A.I. At War
Retrospective

A.I. At War

Florent Marcie
France 2021
107 min
OV w/ EN subtitles
V'21

In A.I. AT WAR, Florent Marcie has a companion named Zota, which is a small and complicated robot that he acquired in Malaysia. Zota’s program uses a sophisticated algorithm to allow it to learn. The interaction between Marcie and Zota is almost unbelievable, because the latter’s learning (she has a woman’s voice) capacity is verified and because her eyes are also a camera. The reverse shots of Marcie are literally the robot’s subjective POV. CELE DOUA compares the documentary recording of firing squad execution of Marshal Ion Antonescu’s execution by firing squad on June 1, 1946, the dictator who ruled the country from 1940 to 1944, to a later fictionalized reconstruction of the same event in the 1990s.
HOMENAJE A LA OBRA is a homage to a 19th century man of science who felt anguish over the imminent replacement of a metaphysical order with another linked to reason and evidence. Similarly, Weber may be disturbed by the radical transformation of the archive from analog to digital, grouping images obtained from different sources on the internet – from human faces created by algorithms to flowers, fossils, pedestrians and marine animals to scenes from films produced by ISIS – in which we can sense a potential dissociation of the image to its reference. (RK)

In the presence of Florent Marcie and Roger Koza (curator).
Supporting films: THE MARSHAL’S TWO EXECUTIONSHOMAGE TO THE WORK OF P.H. GOSSE.
This film will be shown as part of the screening II. FLESH AND BITES

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Credits
DCP
Thu 28 Oct
18:30
Filmmuseum
OV w/ EN subtitles
iCal
Wed 03 Nov
18:30
Filmmuseum
OV w/ EN subtitles
iCal
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