In this film, generative AI dreams in black and white, conjuring ghostly, touch-infused beings whose uncanniness reveals how machine vision interprets the cultural and aesthetic biases it inherits from us.
This short experimental film invites viewers into a visually unstable world generated by artificial intelligence. Unlike most GAI videos that imitate cinematic conventions—such as the look of film stock, camera movements, or smartphone vertical framing—this work resists those logics. Instead, the moving images unfold as if developed on photographic paper: frame ratios shift, textures flicker, and scenes emerge in rhythms reminiscent of analog processes, yet detached from physical reality. The black-and-white aesthetic evokes the visual trust we associate with archival photography, only to gently disrupt it. Rather than exposing flaws or limitations, the film foregrounds the specificity of GAI’s perception—its nonhuman visual logic. It does not see with a body, and thus produces hybrid anatomies, impossible spatialities, and surreal presences. These so-called “errors” are expressive: they reveal how the machine interprets its training data without physical embodiment or material constraints. Built on a quiet dialogue between artist and machine, the film draws from Gintalaitė’s personal archive, especially her travels with her dog Peeta, without becoming autobiographical. Instead, it opens a sympoietic space where human and nonhuman ways of seeing distort and co-create one another.What begins as uncanny gradually becomes intimate, prompting viewers to question whether the eeriness of these beings lies in their novelty—or in what they reveal about our own encoded imaginations.
