24th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Loathing...
director: Franz Milec
original title: Loathing...
country: Germany, Czech Republic
year: 2017
running time: 17 min.
synopsis
A personal essay inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano (1952). Using machins learning on the level of deep reading, the film processes visual and audio records, distorting them, rearranging them, and subsequently submitting them to an algorithm created in part by artificial intelligence that reconstructs the sequences and arranges them in chronological order.
biography
Franz (František) Milec (1993) is a student of FAMU’s Centre for Audovisual Studies. In 2014, the Ji.hlava IDFF showed his short experimental film I Couldn’t Help But Wonder (2014).
more about film
| director: | Franz Milec |
| producer: | Ondřej Šejnoha |
| sound: | Sara Pinheiro, Luboš Rezler |
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
World Premiere
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
World Premiere
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
World Premiere
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
World Premiere
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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