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RIGA IFF 2025 Existential Threats

The Diffusion Pilot

The Diffusion Pilot Directed by: Aurelijus Čiupas
Produced by: Lyza Jarvis, Estonian Academy of Arts
EE 2024 7' en

Cars — how many and what kind? POV shots – how many and from which angles? Colours — which ones and which one dominates? The machine must decide how to arrange, compare and sort images… and the images of those images. The author becomes a pilot, steering the film – his mode of transport into another world where an eternal movie is continuously being created. A world built on an infinite number of images, coming alive in the author’s room. Perhaps the apartment itself exists within this eternal film world? And who is truly in control of this narration?

Čiupas’ experimental essay is an elegant enigma of an image universe, where natural and artificial intelligence, ethics and technology, memory and narrative collide. What can and should be created by AI-generated animation based on diffusion models, when so many tools are on offer that choosing them all is impossible? Perhaps infinity itself should be recalculated. As the “pilot” of this endless loop exercise, premiering nationally at RIGA IFF, the Lithuanian prescribes “a kind of artificial dementia” to artificial intelligence.

Age 12+
23 October
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