Batteries Included
Total: 65 mins 32 secsPrepare yourself to be transported into a collaborative reality teetering between the real and the imagined with our ‘Batteries Included’ block. We observe 3 robots in training as they learn to become more human, and bear witness to the aimless extras from a gaming world. A visual poem is narrated through the photogrammetric method of 3D imaging, whilst an avatar is reborn within a digital multiverse.
Tuesday 17th October
Available for 48 hrs from 4:30pm
Wednesday 4th October
3:00pm - KUDOS Cinema
Thursday 5th October
12:20pm - KUDOS Cinema
Friday 6th October
11:00am - Light Cinema Screen 3
Saturday 7th October
1:40pm - KUDOS Cinema
Sunday 8th October
12:20pm - KUDOS Cinema
3 Dialogues About the Future
Alina Manolache
Romania, 2022
13:30 mins
What is it like to navigate our world as an artificially intelligent robot? What is there to learn about homo sapiens in order to become as 'human' as possible? Three pairs of robots take us through their learning process. They track, analyse and draw information by watching people in different life...
Planets and Robots
Antanas Skucas,
Julius Zubavičius
Julius Zubavičius
Lithuania, 2022
5:32 mins
Film is generated by AI for humans. Don’t worry humans are creative and better than AI. You are the ones who will always have the upper hand, because you have the ability to imagine, to feel, to love. Thank you for existing.
Hardly Working
Total Refusal
Austria, 2022
20:30 mins
Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observe...
The distance between the staircase and the sky
Katerina Athanasopoulou
United Kingdom, 2022
7:00 mins
Ascending a staircase in the centre of Athens makes room for reflection on everyday life, as both otherworldly and mundane. On a planet lit by neon and on a beach powered by cicadas, we twirl into a void measured by walking - one step at a time.
Plymouth University
Plymouth University
Heartbeat
Kim Spierenburg
Netherlands, 2023
3:40 mins
An ode to (new) life. Inspired by the sound of the violin that revives me. Heartbeat is about moving on and how making music is precious and should be cherished. As a disabled artist I have first hand knowledge of the fragility of life.
Avatar Reborn
Ced Pakusevskij
Italy, 2022
1:53 mins
No longer bound by one dimensional reality, we can now use multiple extensions of ourselves to represent who we are both in the physical and digital multiverse.
Abyss
Jeppe Lange
Denmark, 2022
13:27 mins
Abyss is a chain of 10.000 images found through Google’s reverse image search. The visual development is based on the misunderstandings that happen in the AI’s reading of the image material. The AI doesn’t care about scale, emotions or context but are only interested in patterns, colours and c...