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Artificial
Sentience
Written
and Directed by Pete Gomes
Hi8/
dv /computer [1997]
A
computer speak a soliloquy about existence.
Using
text to speech programme, a computer speaks a monologue about
life, death and memory.
Visually
influenced by cybernetic cinema and the works of Whitney Brothers,
Jordan Belson and '2001', this short narrative film explores computers,
consciousness and emotion.
Visually
the film explored low resolutions and pixellation, and the image
was enlarged specifically to degrade the image surface.
Part
of a series of mandalic films, including, Drop,
Cycle, Sensory,
and End Beginning.
The companion
film to Artifical Sentience is End
Beginning which shows a man speaking a monologue about memory
and perception.
This
film was described and written about in the piece
'Bridging the Digital Divide' for Filmaves
magazine.
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