Cycles of Creation (2023)

• 85%
• 2023
• Guli Silberstein

A meditative yet intense AI animated fictional-documentary journey, zooming in on the story of Earth creation, going from light to enlightenment. It's a reflection on Artificial intelligence, as a generator, a creator, using a combination of deep learning models of text to image, text to text, and text to voice. The output ties AI back to the source of our origins, to past narratives of creation, to create a Cybernetic genesis, The film experiments with duration and repetition, in a hypnotic collage of semi-abstract colorful images. It counters online media culture of short quick hits of imagery, offering instead a longer contemplation.