A young woman is seemingly trapped inside a dream and is hit by absurdity happening all around her.

Neuroscientists, artists, and AI teamed up to make a 3-minute short film about future therapy.

Based on a story generated with artificial intelligence.

FROM THE DIRECTOR

“In 2022, or "a few years before AI-pocalypse" as some will call it later into the future, we were invited to participate at Metamersion: Latent Spaces, an event funded by Champalimaud Foundation.

The goal was to produce an art-science installation together with a team led by Zach Mainen consisting of a VR experience and a short film, focused on the future of AI in neuroscience.

For the short film, we figured, why not ask AI?

Using a few prompts and the promise of world domination, we convinced the machine to come up with some scene outlines. These, we combined into a working plot, which we fed back to the AI to give us a screenplay.

A few extra touches to prevent a financial disaster and our 8-page screenplay is now ready to be produced with the help of our non-AI but still very intelligent biological human friends from Zauberberg.

We thought it's a good idea to not release one, but many variations of the film - each variation adding meaning, and revealing a bit more about the character.

Having multiple variations of the short film allowed us to play them in sync on multiple screens in the same time, so that the audience could choose their own experience, almost like the protagonist, each AI therapy session at a time.

We're not sure if we achieved this, and rendering out and quality controlling 20 versions of the short film was the opposite experience of working with AI... But, again, in case this wasn't clear, the only purpose of this project for us was to prove that we know how to work with AI, so let us know where to send those job applications, despite what AI is saying!”

– Octavian Moț