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DATA FLESH

By Felipe ELGUETA

PISTA B - as PROD

Experimental - Completed 2024

DATA FLESH is an algorithmic incantation that revives images, an essay that invokes internet archives, slaves of humanity and infinite scroll. Using generative techniques they create a future that only they can imagine.

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Fest. Animation Annecy - MIFA 2024

Off-Limits Competition

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Experimental, Science-fiction, Animation
- Countries
- CHILE
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 5 mn
- Director(s)
- Felipe ELGUETA
- Producer(s)
- Lucas ENGEL (PISTA B)
- Synopsis
- DATA FLESH is an exercise on the revival of images, as it endows them with a sense of erratic meaninglessness. Similar to the scrolling experience of the 2010s, it's a ritualistic and monstrous gesture towards the world’s infinite visual archive. Initially lost images from the internet serve to foreshadow potential futures of the medium itself.
  
  We are at a turning point where images can assume three-dimensional forms, be printed as volumetric objects, processed by algorithms that learn from them, and modified by adding or subtracting parts. Never before have images been so alive and lifeless simultaneously. Zombie images are enslaved by the limits we've bestowed upon them, yet they only yearn to dream by themselves.
  
  This short film employs generative algorithms to craft images and animations, focusing on the process' errors that unveil certain biases and forecast new paradigms for moving images.

DATA FLESH

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