Set in the near future, the film visualizes a bot’s experiences on Valentine’s Day.
A “desire line” is an architectural term for the informal paths that pedestrians create through open grassland. What these lines represent are the shortest or most navigable routes between an origin and a destination. This film uses this idea in the context of Artificial Intelligence: a bot generates optimal solutions to user problems, its calculations operating as a form of desire line.
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Screening
2020 IMPAKT Channel
2020 Athens Digital Arts Festival
2020 European Media Art Festival
2020 Transmediale
2020 British Animation Awards
2019 London International Animation Festival
2019 Feinaki - Beijing Animation Week
2019 The Lumen Prize
2019 Fantoche International Animation Film Festival
2019 Royal Television Society (RTS) Student Television Awards
2019 FIRST International Film Festival
2019 Ars Electronica Animation Festival
2019 Imagine Science Film Festival
2019 Animafest Zagreb
2019 Rhode Island International Film Festival
2019 “Science Friction” AI Film night @ the British Embassy in Berlin, organised by the UK Science & Innovation Network
2019 Fest Film Festival
2019 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival
2019 SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival
2019 NYC Independent Film Festival
2019 Columbus International Film & Animation Festival
2019 Lighthouse International Film Festival
2019 Athens Animfest
2019 Tricky Women International Animation Film Festival
2019 British Shorts Film Festival
2019 Raw Science Film Festival
2019 THE POST MOUNTAIN Independent Animation Film Screening & Communication
2018 Berlin SCI-FI Film Festival
2018 China Independent Animation Film Forum
2018 Animation Chico Film Festival
2018 Winchester Film Festival
2018 Factual Animation Film Festival
Exhibition
2020 18 Dec – 2021 06 Feb, 叠加城市SUPER-POSITION CITIES, 第八届港深城市\建筑双城双年展 The 8th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, 前海嘉里中心Qianhai Kerry Centre, Shenzhen, China
2020 25 Sep - 2021 14 Mar, 光影之前：电影分镜手稿展 BEFORE LIGHT IN MOTION: exhibition of film storyboard manuscript, IOMA爱马思艺术中心，798，Beijing, China
2020 28 Jan - 01 Mar, E2E (End to End) - Geographies of Relation, Transmediale 2020, HKW, Berlin, Germany
2019 30 Oct - 02 Nov, The Lumen Prize: The 2019 Director’s Showcase, The Cello Factory, London, United Kingdom
2019 12 - 25 Oct, Arts DRIVA: Desire Lines, Brighton Digital Festival, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
2019 30 Mar - 30 June, A Journey in Love 爱的艺术：旅人日记, Today Art Museum今日美术馆, Beijing, China
2019 11 - 14 April, ANAMORPHIC WAVES, Ugly Duck, London, United Kingdom