Kurzfilm
Shorts: AI x Games
7 Kurzfilme • 68min (loop)
HDV • Austrian- and Tyrolian Premieres
02.04.2025, 09:00 Museum im Zeughaus Opening hours: 02.– 06.04. | 09:00–17:00
Artificial Intelligence meets Gaming Culture
Mathematical Infinites, Digital Sisyphean Labors, and Surreal Experiments: AI x Games invites you to a cinematic journey between reality simulations, AI séances, and virtual utopias. The program illustrates how advanced current AI video generators are and how trendy video games can be critically examined through repurposing.
Where Do Grandmas Go When They Get Lost?
Leó Cannone • F 2024 • 2min • frOF+enUT • Austrian premiere
Where do Grandmas go when they get lost? poses the existential question from a child’s perspective: Where do our grandmothers go when they disappear from our lives?
Hardly Working
Total Refusal • AT 2022 • 20min • enOF
With ethnographic precision, Hardly Working makes the invisible visible: In Red Dead Redemption 2, NPCs are trapped in endless work routines. Bugs seem to be their only hope.
Mörmaid – Wet Summer
KAKSI.AI • NO 2024 • 3min • MuVi • Österreichpremiere
The music video Mörmaid – Wet Summer catapults us into a stunningly hypnotic AI universe.
Night Song of a Wandering Cowboy
Andrea De Fusco • IT 2023 • 13min • enOF • Austrian premiere
Night Song of a Wandering Cowboyfollows a digital outlaw in Red Dead Redemption 2 into a Terra incognita of surreal landscapes.
e^(i\*π) + 1 = 0
Junie Lau • GB 2024 • 5min • enOF • Austrian premiere
e^(i*π)+1=0 tells the story of a retired mathematician who escapes into digital comics. Increasingly, his virtual creations slip away from him, revealing a feverish truth behind space and time.
The Sunset Special 2
Nicolas Gebbe • DE 2022 • 20min • enOF+deUT • Tyrolian premiere
The Sunset Special 2 shows a perfect luxury cruise, until cracks in the consumer utopia reveal a psychedelic dream world.
The Artificial Conjuring Circle
S()fia Bragar • AT 2024 • 5min • enOF • Tirolpremiere
In The Artificial Conjuring Circle, a speculative vision from the »Novacene« unfolds: Humans and non-humans struggle for the survival of the Earth, accompanied by cryptic subtitles.
