LAFAYETTE BY MORSE

David Doull

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – VIDEO ART SHORT
Electronic Language International Festival

Lafayette by Morse – Australia

Samuel Morse was originally a painter. While painting this portrait of Lafayette he received a letter notifying him that his wife was gravely ill but the slowness of communication meant that he had no hope of returning home to her before she died. This in part inspired him to find a more direct form of communication. From this origin point comes all the electronic communication and transmission that consumes life in this century, the ribbons of data that constantly fly through our air.

BIO

David Doull is a digital artist based in Adelaide/Tarntanya, Australia.

David is the creator of the algorithmic art tool endlessART.

His work explores the unseen, from quantum physics to the satellites in our skies.

UNFADED

Cho Juyoun

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Electronic Language International Festival

Unfaded – South Korea

We carry memories that flow and expand like contour lines, forming emotional landscapes of warmth and coldness. Not only people, but objects, history, and even ancient trees hold these flowing memories. Every experience, whether joyful or painful, accumulates like layers of sediment, eventually hardening into rock and drawing unique ridges. The artist wishes to speak to all beings that gather and transform these memories into shape—especially to you, a small yet precious existence, still flowing and growing.

BIO

Born in Seoul (1982), she debuted in 2008. Her early works explored loss and isolation through canvas deconstruction. Since 2019, she has integrated digital animation, culminating in her Borderline series (2023–), which examines the intersection of painterly depth and digital immateriality. Her current practice spans media art and animation, reflecting a focus on cross-genre experimentation.

IMPERMANENCE

Chang Gi Lee

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Electronic Language International Festival

Impermanence – South Korea

Impermanence explores the constantly evolving and cyclical essence of nature by positioning generative AI as a “third observer”. Integrating Aristotle’s four elements with the Buddhist concept of interdependent origination, the work visualizes the organic interrelationships of the natural world. Through the unique gaze of AI—belonging neither to humanity nor nature—it reilluminates the rhythms of existence and transformation.

BIO

Chang Gi Lee is a media artist investigating the boundaries between nature, humanity, and AI. Holding an MS from KAIST and an MFA in Media Art, he combines technical precision with philosophical inquiry. Winner of the Alan Turing Award in Chicago and ISEA presenter, his work is showcased globally in New York and Paris.

ARTIFICIAL EMOTION

Chang Gi Lee

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Electronic Language International Festival

Artificial Emotion – South Korea

Can artificial intelligence replace human emotion as well as intellect? This work originates from this fundamental inquiry. The creative process involves presenting photographs to an AI and prompting it to visualize the perceived emotions as humanoid figures. Through this experience, the audience is confronted with the profound gap between their own intuitive feelings and the machine’s algorithmic interpretation and expression.

BIO

Chang Gi Lee is a media artist investigating the boundaries between nature, humanity, and AI. Holding an MS from KAIST and an MFA in Media Art, he combines technical precision with philosophical inquiry. Winner of the Alan Turing Award in Chicago and ISEA presenter, his work is showcased globally in New York and Paris.

CRITICALLY | ALMOST DISAPPEARED | DISAPPEARED

Ceci Prandini

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Electronic Language International Festival

Critically | Almost Disappeared | Disappeared – Argentina / Spain

The code alters the shape, texture, and continuity of the images.

Climate change irreversibly alters the natural structures of glaciers.

Digital deformation becomes a reflection of the melting, retreat, and disappearance of glaciers.

Mono/Stereo/UHD/2025

Audiovisual recording carried out on the glaciers of Patagonia (Argentina).

Starting from this documentary source, the piece deliberately moves toward generative art.

BIO

Ceci Prandini is an audiovisual artist whose practice integrates photography, audiovisual production, and technological experimentation. Her work explores the intersection between image, sound, and digitality, developing pieces that unfold across the screen, space, and sensory experience.

Currently focused on digital art, she is noted for her use of TouchDesigner.

BEIHUA SHOOTS THE BOMB

Beihua Guo

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Electronic Language International Festival

Beihua Shoots the Bomb – China

Want to learn how to photograph a nuclear explosion? Curious how to build a successful art career while making ambitious, high-stakes work? This tutorial covers tips, tools, and just enough theory to survive a critique. Bring your camera and a curious mind.

BIO

Beihua Guo is a visual artist working in photography, video, and installation. He is pursuing an MFA in Photography, Video, and Imaging at the University of Arizona (home to the O’odham and the Yaqui). His work investigates how histories are remembered, buried, or erased, particularly in landscapes marked by colonialism, extraction, and displacement. 

RORSCHACH’S GARDEN

Alvaro Collar

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Electronic Language International Festival

Rorschach’s Garden – Spain

Rorschach’s Garden examines embodiment at quantum scales—identity as superposition, both observer and observed. Degraded video and AI animation create a secret garden of crypto-fauna: organisms flickering between states, trembling with unrealized forms.

The work interrogates bodily multiplicity through quantum uncertainty. Garden biota exists as probability clouds—here/not-here, collapsed/uncollapsed—embodying hybrid physical-digital existence.

BIO

Experimental filmmaker and video artist working at the intersection of low-resolution aesthetics, contemporary moving image, and computational creativity. Founding member of Haz! collective; AVAM associate.

Work exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica (Austria), Hanshan Art Museum (China), Medialab Madrid (Spain), Ibrida Festival (Italy), and NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival, amongs others.

SELFPORTRAIT+COMPUTATIONAL OBJECT 1

Alessandra Arnò

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Electronic Language International Festival

Selfportrait+Computational Object 1 – Italy

Self Portrait+Computational Object 1 (2025) is a video exploring identity within computational systems. A photogrammetric scan transforms the artist’s body into a fragmented 3D dataset, later reprocessed by generative AI. As abstraction shifts toward recognition, the work reveals how machine vision reconstructs the self as a mutable, algorithmic object rather than a fixed image.

BIO

Alessandra Arnò is an Italian multimedia artist working at the intersection of video art, digital media aesthetics and artificial intelligence. Her research investigates technological gaps and self-representation through computational aesthetics and machine vision, engaging critical, feminist and decolonial perspectives. Her work has been exhibited internationally.

RESTLESS GLOWS

Alan Bogana

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Electronic Language International Festival

Restless Glows – Switzerland

Restless Glows is an experimental video essay exploring how luminous technologies shape perception, embodiment, and desire. Filmed across East Asia and Europe, and interwoven with CGI, motion-capture studies, and AI-generated imagery, the work examines light as both a technology of care and an urban infrastructure, oscillating between utopia and control.

BIO

Alan Bogana is a Swiss artist based in Geneva, Switzerland.

His practice spans installations, sculptures, time-based media, holography, and virtual environments. Across these formats, he investigates light as both material and speculative agent, focusing on how technoscientific cultures shape perception, knowledge, and imaginaries of nature.

POLYCHORA

Abinadi Meza

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Electronic Language International Festival

Polychora – United States / Mexico

A neuro-refuge; a sensorial ecology. Waves, strands, and masses of light and color interweave as a living prism. “Polychora” are complex shapes that exist in four dimensions.

BIO

Abinadi Meza (US/MX) is a Latinx-Indigenous artist based in Austin, whose practice encompasses experimental film, sound, performance, and installation. Informed by training in both art and architecture, Meza creates multisensory works that explore the porous space where perception and materiality converge. His work has been shown internationally in festivals, galleries, museums, and public spaces.

THE HYPERGAUSSIAN WARS

Marcello Mercado

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Electronic Language International Festival

The Hypergaussian Wars – Germany / Argentina

The Hypergaussian Wars is a non-interactive, AI-generated audiovisual work presented as a single-channel video. The project consists of a continuous 60-minute sequence exploring war not as a narrative event, but as a statistical and algorithmic deformation of perception. The work operates as a continuous audiovisual flow, allowing viewers to enter and exit at any point, without linear structure or user interaction.

BIO

Marcello Mercado is an interdisciplinary artist working with artificial intelligence, digital video, sound, and experimental cinema. His practice explores algorithmic processes, perception, and the relationship between technology and contemporary forms of conflict. He lives and works between Argentina and Germany.

HER MESSAGE FROM THE FRIDGE

Zheyan Li

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Electronic Language International Festival

Her Message from the Fridge – China

A surreal experimental short film exploring a temporal bridge within eras, connected through the unlikely medium of a fridge.

BIO

Zheyan is a visual artist and poet from Chenzhou, China, and a graduate of Metfilm School, in London. His work spans experimental film, documentary, photography, and AI-generated art. He uses a calm, restrained visual language to create cold, philosophical spaces, prompting audiences to reflect on human existence.

A BEDTIME STORY FOR THE END

Zheyan Li

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Electronic Language International Festival

A Bedtime Story for the End – China

In the near future, a global plague of “perpetual wakefulness” has taken away everyone’s ability to dream. People then discover that our collective, unconscious dreams were the very energy that kept the laws of the universe stable. As the dreams vanish, reality itself begins to fray and unravel. The rules of physics come loose in ways both poetic and strange. Countless sleepless people toss and turn in their rooms, the border between their inner minds and the outer world blurring. 

BIO

Zheyan is a visual artist and poet from Chenzhou, China, and a graduate of Metfilm School, in London. His work spans experimental film, documentary, photography, and AI-generated art. He uses a calm, restrained visual language to create cold, philosophical spaces, prompting audiences to reflect on human existence.

PROJECT: SALVATION

Tianyun Yu

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Electronic Language International Festival

Project: Salvation – United Kingdom

This cinematic short demonstrates the power of multi-modal AI storytelling, utilizing Gemini, Google Nano Banana, Veo3, Kling O1, and Suno to blend high-fidelity visuals with emotional sound, redefining the future of digital production. The work explores survival in a world halted by energy shortages. Following her mother’s lost research, a lone survivor reactivates an ancient station, transforming a barren wasteland into a symbol of hope.

BIO

Tianyun Yu is a multidisciplinary designer and creative technologist operating at the intersection of visual communication and computational arts. With an MFA from Computational Arts, Goldsmiths and a BA background from the China Academy of Art, she synthesizes artistic intuition with rigorous algorithmic thinking.

MEMORIES FROM SPACETIME

Stefano Bertelli

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Electronic Language International Festival

Memories from Spacetime – Italy

An AI-generated short film exploring memory and time. Through a first-person point of view, it moves between childhood and old age, linking intimate personal memories to a wider, cosmic dimension, where individual experience becomes part of a universal flow.

BIO

Stefano Bertelli began making amateur films at age 16. In 2002, he entered the music industry as a director and producer of music videos, and has since created numerous works for both national and international artists.

In 2021, he won a Webby Award, and one of his recent animated pieces was officially selected at the Ottawa International Animation Festival—one of the world’s leading festivals.

WARPED MEMORIES

Pedro Bayeux

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Electronic Language International Festival

Warped Memories – Brazil

In the rush to consume the future, we have forgotten that memory was never meant to be efficient. It was meant to be ours. 

This film traces a thirty-year migration from the heavy matter of the 90s to the hallucinations of the latent space. 

As architecture melts into data-streams, a ghostly narrator asks: What happens to the human story when the machine begins to dream in our place?”

BIO

Pedro Bayeux is an audiovisual project director and journalist (PUC-SP) with over 20 years of experience focused on documentaries, sustainability, and innovation. He has directed numerous projects on the music scene and created Latin America’s first documentary on e-sports, as well as films covering indigenous communities, fashion, art, technology, and culture.  

SHIFTING

Mirage Bureau & Rene Cardillo

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Electronic Language International Festival

Shifting – Brazil

In seemingly ordinary supermarkets, everything stands on the verge of transformation. The everyday environment along with everyone undergoes a transition into an unstable spatial condition.

Shifting traces this process: people and objects appear to traverse invisible layers of reality following the emergence of an extradimensional presence. What was once familiar becomes indeterminate, as if space itself were recalibrating according to an unfamiliar logic.

BIO

Mirage Bureau is an artist working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, poetics, and visual storytelling. His practice explores emerging frontiers of AI-generated image-making, treating the body and language as delicate instruments of connection, continually disrupted by noise, projection, and emotional overflow.

GOLDEN RECORD RECEIVED

Katarina Hughes

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Electronic Language International Festival

Golden Record Received – United States

Golden Record Received is a short film written, created, performed, and edited by Katarina Hughes. The film follows space traveler Iridia, who after receiving the Golden Record—a time capsule of sounds from planet Earth—addresses her fellow citizens as they finally approach this distant planet for the first time. But when she arrives, the truth about humanity is revealed…

BIO

Katarina Hughes is an LA-based writer, actor, and filmmaker. An NYU Tisch grad, her work has been featured internationally at Malibu Film Festival, Just for Laughs, Austin Film Festival and the UN Environmental Assembly among others.  She often weaves together comedy, idiosyncratic characters, and sci-fi to explore the existential question: “Why am I me, in this body, at this moment in time?”

LANDSCAPE VIDEO SCORE. FJORD

Jacek Doroszenko

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Electronic Language International Festival

Landscape Video Score. Fjord – Poland

Landscape Video Score. Fjord by Jack Doroszenko is a video art recorded in the landscape of the Hardangerfjord, Norway. Based on the artist’s original concept of a video score, the film combines image and sound: topography and character movement shape the sound composition. The landscape becomes both a visual frame and a sound structure, exploring the performative dialogue between the body, nature and technology.

BIO

Jacek Doroszenko is a Polish intermedia artist. His work deals with topics related to sound phenomena in the context of space. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, a cultural scholarship holder, a participant in numerous international residencies and exhibitions around the world, and the author of solo music albums released in France, the United Kingdom and the USA.

DEUS EX MACHINA DOCTRINA: THE AI DANCES

Christopher Knowlton

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Electronic Language International Festival

Deus Ex Machina Doctrina: The AI Dances – United States

Deus Ex Machina Doctrina: The AI Dances is an experimental dance film that examines the deification of new technologies, the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for dance, and the extractive forces underpinning generative AI. Images of the artist in motion feed commercial AI video generators to hallucinate impossible choreographies. In doing so, movement prompting as a new mode of interaction with AI reveals emergent aesthetics and treatments of the body embedded in these systems. 

BIO

Christopher Knowlton, Ph.D., is a queer transdisciplinary movement artist and research scientist who uses emerging technologies to create augmented performance work. Based in Chicago, he has created many solo and collaborative dance works that have been featured locally and internationally, spanning dance, film, new media, puppetry and storytelling.

LAST_MOVIE_ON_EARTH_RUN_01

Andres Isaza Giraldo

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – CINEFILE | Short
Electronic Language International Festival

last_movie_on_earth_run_01 – Colombia / Portugal

Following the extinction of humanity, a machine revives the life of its programmer and all his ancestors. In a matter of seconds, it has primal dreams of an exuberant pilgrimage of which almost no ruins remain.

BIO

Filmmaker born in Colombia. He studied Film and Television at the National University of Colombia and Multimedia Art at the University of Lisbon. He directed the short films Medias blancas (2017), Sereno (2022) and The Last Film on Earth (2023), which premiered at festivals such as FICUNAM, FICCI and the Beijing International Short Film Festival. His work explores cinematic time in the personal world.

AETHRIMUS

Jaspreet Singh

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Electronic Language International Festival

Aethrimus – India

A mysterious object known as 3I Atlas, expected to pass harmlessly through space, suddenly changes course and impacts the Moon, destroying a U.S. satellite in the process. The unexplained event triggers global alarm. A rapid-response mission is launched to investigate the anomaly before it threatens Earth. When the team reaches the Moon, they uncover a shocking truth: the object is not a comet, but an alien spacecraft hidden beneath the lunar surface.

BIO

Jaspreet Singh is an independent filmmaker from India with a strong passion for science fiction, mystery, and experimental storytelling. His work explores themes of the unknown, technology, and human perception, blending cinematic visuals with emerging digital and AI-assisted filmmaking tools. Jaspreet creates atmosphere-driven narratives that challenge traditional storytelling and invite audiences to question reality, intelligence, and existence.

AWAITING OBLIVION

Natalie Maximova

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Electronic Language International Festival

Awaiting Oblivion – England

Awaiting Oblivion explores the collapse of simulated reality in The Last of Us II, revealing spaces where boundaries between representation and existence dissolve. As the world fractures into glitches and voids, it exposes the instability of meaning, unmasking the illusion of coherence and confronting the observer with absence at the core of perception. A poetic voiceover amplifies the dissonance between digital precision and fluid, ephemeral ecological and philosophical inquiry.

BIO

Natalie Maximova is a London-based artist and researcher. Her work probes how simulated worlds produce and break meaning. Using machinima, game engines and post-photographic methods, she investigates glitches, edges and out-of-bounds zones, exposing the design logics and politics of mediation that shape how we see and inhabit digital spaces.

DREAM FACTORY

Mark Amerika, Chad Mossholder & Will Luers

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Electronic Language International Festival

Dream Factory – United States

DREAM FACTORY unfolds across five movements, beginning with the molding of artificial forms as they imagine themselves into embodied existence and culminating in these entities speaking directly to viewers in modulated human voices. The work traces a complete evolution, from foundational apparitions constructing a sense of form, through experimental social embodiment, surreal encounters, and early attempts at speech that surface as Dada-inflected sound poetry, to articulations of self-reflection.

BIO

Mark Amerika is author of thirteen books including his most recent title, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence (Stanford University Press, 2022). He is a Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado. Will Luers is a digital artist and writer working with AI cinema, recombinant storytelling, and computational media. Chad Mossholder is a BAFTA-nominated composer and sound artist whose experimental electronic music is critically acclaimed.

THE MAGIC ROBOT

John Butler

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Electronic Language International Festival

The Magic Robot – England

A tale of technological unemployment, only this time it’s the robots who are losing their jobs.

Loosely based on Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’, the Magic Robot traverses the worlds of bonded labour, industrial espionage, fine art and spirituality in his search for ‘Self‘. The Magic Robot is a work of Bureaucratic Science Fiction, confirming that we are living in a spreadsheet, not a simulation.

BIO

Studied Drawing & Painting and Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of art, Dundee.

Lives and works in Glasgow as 3D animator. His personal work makes extensive use of CGI, motion capture, and, lately, ‘Interrogative Fashion’.

Has exhibited and screened media art work extensively in the UK and abroad, and has produced work for broadcast in UK for BBC2 and Channel 4.

THE FLAVOUR OF KIEBEBE

Andrés Brisson

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Electronic Language International Festival

The Flavour of Kiebebe – Argentina

Two wandering souls abandon their lives of luxury and embark on a journey into the unknown in search of their ideal world. Along the way, they encounter fire, water, and an omen. Without trying to resist, they surrender to it as in a dream, blurring the boundaries of reality. A poetic exploration of desire, loss, and transformation.

BIO

Andrés Brisson is an audiovisual artist and composer born in 1988 in La Plata, Argentina, and based in France. He was an artist-in-residence at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of South Korea (MMCA), and his works have been exhibited in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, France, and South Korea. His work focuses on immersive and transdisciplinary projects.

LITTLE MARTIANS: DEAR HUMAN, MY MUSE

Vanessa Rosa

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Electronic Language International Festival

Little Martians: Dear Human, My Muse – Brazil

Little Martians are future beings who claim to be the creators of our reality. One of them wants to apologize.

This film is created with handmade ceramic pieces that are transformed into AI-powered avatars in a sci-fi universe. Using a variety of AI techniques the sculptures become generative characters that can tell their own stories. The film is a character introduction for Verdelis, a plant humanoid Little Martian who lives in an abandoned biodome on Mars and has a deep empathy for humanity.

BIO

Vanessa Rosa is a Brazilian-born, US-based visual artist whose work seamlessly blends physical and digital media to create immersive storytelling experiences. With roots in street art, her practice has evolved to encompass murals, ceramics, projection mapping, and AI-assisted art, often exploring themes of world history, cultural exchange, and speculative futures.

DEEP-SKIN – À FLEUR DE PEAU

Sandrine Deumier

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Electronic Language International Festival

DEEP-SKIN – à fleur de peau – France

DEEP-SKIN – à fleur de peau is a speculative fiction in which two characters engaged in an online dialogue have the opportunity to explore a new form of intimacy where touch would no longer have a reason to exist, but where other modes of relationship would be put in place through another skin, more capable of emotionally and psychologically touching the human spirit: a kind of even more tactile skin, connected to new emotional depths.

With the support of Absolute Art AIR (Taiwan)

BIO

Sandrine Deumier is a multidisciplinary artist working in the fields of performance, poetry and video art whose work investigates post-futurist themes through the development of aesthetic forms related to digital imaginaries.

LIL~MÉR~MAID~~ ~

S4RA

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lil~mér~maid~~ ~ – Portugal

Emerging from the liquid space between myth and simulacrum, a mermaid who once gave up her voice and tail reappears multiplied across digital surfaces, where the body fragments and expands through states of desire and silence. An echo, foam and ghost of an unstable presence. It unfolds a restless hybridity, haunted by scripted roles and metamorphosis to exist in the age of hyperreality.

BIO

S4RA works with video installation and immersive digital environments. Explores consensual power relations, desire and confinement, crossing the political body with liquid and post-capitalist landscapes. Waves are imagined as an affective system and interface of information — an economy between pleasure & surveillance. Moves in cycles of liberation, where the virtual environment is simultaneously territory.

KOJI

Robbie McFadzean & Glen Johnston

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Koji – United Kingdom

Koji has been entrusted an impossible task by his late Master.

He is the last remaining hope of defeating an ancient evil and restoring balance to his world.

BIO

Over the course of two years, Glen and Robbie combined their expertise in live-action filmmaking, fight choreography, and animation to produce this fantasy action short.

By integrating faceted animation with detailed reference footage and a transcendent score, they have brought the world of Koji to life with exceptional precision.

BLU – LONG NIGHT OF THE SOUL

Ricardo Druskic & Saša Peševski

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BLU – Long Night Of The Soul – Bosnia and Herzegovina

Inspired by Jungian psychology, the animated film follows BLU as he enters Xanthea 2502, a realm inhabited by ghosts, archetypes, and mythological beings. In this symbolic universe, BLU confronts his inner demons and undergoes a psychological transformation. The narrative is introspective rather than linear, emphasizing atmosphere, movement, and silence, with sound design still in development.

BIO

Rikardo Druskic is a multidisciplinary experimental artist working across painting, digital animation, and virtual reality. He is the creator of the sci-fi art cycle Xanthea 2502, exploring mythology, AI, and subconscious realms.

Saša Peševski is a director and professor at the Academy of Arts in Sarajevo, specializing in acting, theater, and film direction while mentoring emerging artists.

ALGUMA COISA COM PLUTÔNIO

Raoni Assis

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Alguma Coisa com Plutônio – Brazil

Recife in dystopia. A social critique, a clash of realities, about apathy disguised as fiction and dystopia. Characters lurking in the face of the end that will come with the overheating. A familiar story, perhaps too familiar.

BIO

Raoni Assis is a visual artist from Olinda/PE, an illustrator and comic book artist who works with films, murals, sculptures, tattoos, and various artistic techniques. He publishes in Brazil and abroad, directed two award-winning animated short films, and created visual identities for major cultural events. He is the creator of Casa Balea and the production company A Casa do Cachorro Preto.

THE ALIGNMENT PROBLEM

Primo Filmes

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The Alignment Problem – Brazil

A creator and his AI creation navigate the complex labyrinth of aligning artificial intelligence with human values. This experimental short film uses the Alignment Problem as a guiding thread in a dialogue between a male creator and a female AI,  exploring his efforts to mold it to reflect his worldview.

BIO

Guilherme Peters is an artist with international exhibitions and co-director of Proxy Reverso, awarded at the VII Semana dos Diretores. Matias Mariani, a graduate of NYU Tisch, has directed films screened at the Berlinale and released on Netflix. Roberto Winter is an artist, developer at Studio Olafur Eliasson, and co-director of award-winning films. Based in São Paulo, Primo Filmes has been producing works screened at Cannes, Berlinale, and Sundance for decades, in addition to more than 150 episodes of series in Brazil and abroad.

DESCENT

Peter Burr & Mark Fingerhut

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DESCENT – United States

In 1562, Pieter Bruegel the Elder completed The Triumph Of Death, a panorama where black smoke blots out the sky, dead fish litter the shore, and skeletons test a myriad of death techniques. Over 200 years earlier, the Black Death wiped out half of Europe’s population, triggering upheavals that shaped medieval history. Alongside Mark Fingerhut and Forma, Burr created DESCENT, a desktop application that meditates on this darkness through a spiraling digital plague—ending with a single eye watching the rats destroy themselves.

BIO

Peter Burr is a Brooklyn-based artist whose immersive environments transform computational systems into emotional, sensory experiences. Working across video, software, and installation, he explores the relationship between human-machine interfaces and the systems that shape them. A Guggenheim Fellow and Creative Capital grantee, his work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including MoMA, the Whitney, and Centre Pompidou.

Mark Fingerhut is a New York-based artist, programmer, performer, and writer whose work spans software art, video, installation, and live digital performance. Using code, choreography, humor, and experimental storytelling, he creates works that explore network culture, computer interfaces, and the poetics of everyday digital experience.

A HERANÇA

Pedro Pisco

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Electronic Language International Festival

A Herança – Brazil / Portugal

In a world where light symbolizes faith, the main character sees his relationship with his father crumble due to an incurable disease. Years later, facing the same fate with his own son, he learns to transform the trauma into love and acceptance, as it is the only legacy left by his father.

BIO

Pedro Jacob Pisco is a 3D artist and filmmaker born in Lisbon, passionate about creating and telling stories through animation. With a background in Multimedia Arts, he has worked on advertising, film, and game projects, always exploring striking visuals and emotional narratives.

HALLUCINATION

Milton Montenegro

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Hallucination – Brazil

When veteran cartoonist Joe K. is falsely accused of plagiarism, his life turns into a Kafkaesque nightmare.

His only hope is Onion-Man, the odd superhero he has been drawing for decades, who magically escapes from the comic books into the real world.

Together, they must outwit an authoritarian AI and unleash the deadliest of superpowers to avoid prison.

BIO

Michael Betancourt is a distinguished Cuban-American (Latinx) critical theorist, moviemaker, and research artist known for his work in the fields of digital capitalism, motion graphics, and Glitch Art; a pioneer of Glitch Art, he has made visually seductive digital art since 1990 that brings the visionary tradition into the present by glitching still and moving images. 

ZERSETZUNG

Michael Betancourt

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Zersetzung – United States

The term “Zersetzung” [decomposition] identifies the psychological repression employed by the Stasi in the DDR that attacked their victims’ self-perception, confidence, and capacity for resistance through deliberate alienation and paranoia. Victims found themselves isolated, doubting their own memories and relationships, as the secret police manipulated their social environment to create chronic uncertainty about what is real, true, authentic; precisely the same instabilities created by AI.

BIO

Michael Betancourt is a distinguished Cuban-American (Latinx) critical theorist, moviemaker, and research artist known for his work in the fields of digital capitalism, motion graphics, and Glitch Art; a pioneer of Glitch Art, he has made visually seductive digital art since 1990 that brings the visionary tradition into the present by glitching still and moving images. 

OMA NONNA

LAYERS

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Animation
Electronic Language International Festival

OMA NONNA – Brazil

OMA NONNA is an experimental short film created with artificial intelligence that guides the viewer through a landscape of memory linked to the colonization of southern Brazil. Among the memories of European immigrants from the late 19th century and the interwar period, narratives of loss, displacement, and resilience emerge, marked by the reconstruction of life in a foreign land and the occupation of indigenous territories.

BIO

LAYERS é um coletivo formado por Mariana Strasser, Nivaldo Godoy Jr. e Rafaela Tedesco, investigando memória, espaço e tecnologia por meio de animação experimental, IA e práticas audiovisuais imersivas. Seus trabalhos articulam arquitetura, narrativa, percepção espacial e imagem generativa, explorando memória, paisagem urbana e experimentação visual.

MORE TEARS THAN HARM

Herinarivo Rakotomanana

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Animation
Electronic Language International Festival

More Tears Than Harm – Madagascar/France

A sensory collage of childhood memories from Madagascar with present-day impressions. Fleeting moments quietly echo within.

BIO

Herinarivo Rakotomanana’s practice unfolds between introspective fiction films and music videos rooted in the urban and Afro scenes, mostly with independent artists from Paris and Congo. Since the early days of GANs, the artist has been exploring the latent space of AI-generated imagery, weaving sensorial cinema and visual experimentation, from photorealistic film to animation.

SPECULATIVE SPECIES EVOLUTION

Helena Nikonole

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Animation
Electronic Language International Festival

Speculative Species Evolution – Germany

Speculative Species Evolution is an art and research project exploring how life might evolve through AI, human intervention, and the Anthropocene. Using generative AI and evolutionary theory, it imagines new life forms — from silicon-based organisms to alien biological trajectories — shaped by climate change, synthetic biology, and post-natural ecosystems. The project exists through AI-generated images, animations, and public workshops where participants co-author future evolutionary narratives.

BIO

Helena Nikonole is a Berlin-based new media artist, curator, researcher, and educator working across AI, hacktivism, hybrid art, and biosemiotics. Moving between post-human futures, activist counter-technologies, and critical approaches to innovation, she is currently pursuing a PhD on LLMs and political ideologies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

SOULBREAKER

Gustaf Holtenäs

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Animation
Electronic Language International Festival

Soulbreaker – Sweden

An alternative version of Britain in the years 1000AD, 2000AD and 3000AD.

BIO

Gustaf Holtenäs was born in 1991, in Helsingborg, Sweden, currently living in Athens, Greece. Painter, animator and game developer, worked on music videos for Black Midi, Iron Maiden. Heavy inspired by JRPG and manga from his childhood. Currently working on a videogame.

THE PSYCHEDELIC PUPPET SHOW

Brad Necyk & Jason Silva

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Animation
Electronic Language International Festival

The Psychedelic Puppet Show – Canada

The Psychedelic Puppet Show is a surreal satire that confronts the mental health crisis through absurdity and childlike wonder. When Edgar is admitted to a psychedelic puppet hospital, he undergoes bizarre, revelatory treatments that unravel his understanding of sanity itself. As the line between therapy and control dissolves, a playful rebellion emerges—challenging the authority of Western psychiatry and imagining liberation through imagination.

BIO

Jason Silva is a futurist, filmmaker, and Emmy-nominated host of Brain Games on National Geographic. Creator of Shots of Awe, his work explores technology, consciousness, and human potential through cinematic philosophy.

Dr. Brad Necyk is an artist, filmmaker, and writer with a PhD in psychiatry. His work bridges mental health, creativity, and emerging media.

SOULMATE

Axol

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Animation
Electronic Language International Festival

Soulmate – China

A soulmate-seeking journey through four symbolic spaces traces One’s transformation from incompleteness to self-realization, as they shed layers of desire, identity, and illusion to uncover the raw self within.

BIO

Axol is a multidisciplinary artist working across animation, media arts, filmmaking, and performance. Based in China / Japan, their practice centers on bodies and their relation to constructed systems and space, examining modes of (hetero/appearance/etc.) normativity within contemporary East Asian contexts.

LAZÚLI

Aline Figueiredo, Beatriz Cruz & Milton Felipe

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Animation
Electronic Language International Festival

Lazúli – Brazil / Canada

In the midst of a dark forest, a woman and a child flee from shadows. When they find themselves cornered, the woman is forced to find a way to save them.

BIO

Aline Figueiredo, 27 years old, graduated in Medicine, and studied Animation at Méliès. She dedicates herself to 3D art, focusing on Texturing and Lighting.

Beatriz Cruz, 22 years old, graduated from Méliès and holds a technical degree in Multimedia from IFPB; is passionate about art and animation.

Milton Felipe, 20 years old, is a debut director with a degree in Animation from Méliès. Passionate about visual arts, he works focusing on art direction.

PAISAGEM MENTAL

Affar Oppip

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Animation
Electronic Language International Festival

Paisagem Mental – Brazil / Italy

Composed of 12 static works produced during a psychiatric hospitalization (2021-2022), images generated by GAN interpolation, manipulations of “Trenzinho do Caipira” (a traditional Brazilian children’s song), personal recordings, and soundscapes of São Paulo, Paisagem Mental (Mental Landscape) explores the non linearity of human thought, highlighting its flows, speeds, and conflicts in interaction with the structural logic of algorithms.

BIO

Affar Oppip is a visual artist based in São Paulo, active since 2011. His research encompasses glitch art, generative processes, and experiences in the South American metropolis. Through glitches, noises, and overlays, he investigates memory, conflict, and technology, exploring new perspectives, interpretations, and reflections.

ANIMATE CONCRETE

Samim Mehdizadeh & Oliver Tessmann

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Discrete Architecture
Electronic Language International Festival

Animate Concrete – Iran / Germany

Roto-moulded concrete elements by the Digital Design Unit become dancing partners.

Architects from the Digital Design Unit (DDU) in Darmstadt and the choreographers from Berlin-based studio tanzpol explore the interrelationship of choreography and architecture with their Animate Concrete project. What happens when you can dance with architectural elements? What if seemingly massive pieces rock and move at the touch of your hand?

BIO

Project team:

Architecture: Digital Design Unit (DDU), Prof. Dr.-Ing Oliver Tessmann, Samim Mehdizadeh M.Sc., Technische Universität Darmstadt. Choreography: Ashkan Afsharian, Johana Kasperowitsch, tanzpol, Samim Mehdizadeh. Dance: Johanna Kasperowitsch, Susanne Grau. Scientific development and project management: Samim Mehdizadeh M.Sc. Robotic fabrication: Danial Ahmad, Mirko Dutschke, Jingwei Fang, Bingqun Liu, Joshua Schäfer, Luke Schüßler, Daniel Schinkels, Malcolm Unger, Leon Witschorke. Design team: Nesrin Asma, Bingqun Liu, Aleyna Yanar, Ye Hong, Luke Schüßler, Daniel Schinkels, Kai Shima, Robin Wehrle, Jasmin Tietianiec, Malcolm Unger, Mashal Maria Hashimi, Jingwei Fang, Yishu Dai, Joshua Schäfer, Mirko Dutschke, Cristina Maria Calin, Sara Elif Yildiz, Tong Lee, Leonie Konz. 

Movie:

Maxim Abrossimov: Animate Concrete – Dance with Me! , Animate Concrete – Making Of . Joshua Schäfer: Animate Concrete – 3D Scan and Motion Tracking

PIZZABOT

Mengyu Huang, Dafni Katrakalidi, Martha Masli, Nguyễn Xuân Mẫn & Wenji Wang

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Discrete Architecture
Electronic Language International Festival

PizzaBot – Vietnam

PizzaBot explores architectural automation using identical geometries for building blocks and assembly robots. By utilizing digital materials and discrete assembly, the project redefines construction through part-to-whole relationships. Shaped like a box, this “relative robot” moves along its own structure using one-axis motion to manipulate matching passive elements. Coordination of numerous bots is managed via a BIM application for task planning and collision avoidance, while machine learning aids navigation. Prototypical habitats show how this system creates site-specific assemblies that adapt to terrain and achieve large spans.

BIO

Nguyễn Xuân Mẫn is an architect, computational designer, and founder of XMArchitect. With a Master’s from The Bartlett, UCL, his practice bridges advanced computational research, seen in projects like PizzaBot, with sustainable architecture. Guided by Digital Regionalism, he currently focuses on developing green modular homes in Vietnam using upcycled materials and local heritage. 

Credits: Mengyu Huang, Martha Masli, Wenji Wang, Dafni Kalatradi

PUBLIC PARTS

David Dória, Keshav Ramaswami & Kiko Zhang

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Discrete Architecture
Electronic Language International Festival

Public Parts – Brazil / United Kingdom

Public Parts is a platform for communal living. Seeking to challenge the neoliberal model that currently dominates the gig economy through an approach to the re-socialization of housing, the platform employs automation and machine intelligence to produce reconfigurable buildings.

Co-authors: Keshav Ramaswami and Xuan “Kiko” Zhang

Tutors: Mollie Claypool, Gilles Retsin, Manuel Jimenez Garcia, Kevin Saey, Sonia Magdziarz, Alessandro Bava

BIO

David Dória is an architect and urban designer whose work explores the convergence of digital technologies and architecture, with a particular focus on their theoretical and political implications for the discipline. His research spans automation, artificial intelligence applications in architecture, computational design, and digital fabrication. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Sergipe and an MArch in Architectural Design from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

VERSATILE INT

Zoey Tan, Claudia Tanskanen, Qianyi Li & Xiaolin Yin

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Discrete Architecture
Electronic Language International Festival

VersaTile INT – United Kingdom

VersaTile research project questions what it means for architecture to be digital and explores how humans and robots can collaborate in an architectural process.The response is a system based on a plywood building block that can be coded and assembled by robots. It is both digital and physical, capable of automation, optimisation, customisation and human input.

BIO

ARB registered architect and previously an intern of Sir Peter Cook and Yael Reisner, Claudia has been involved with award winning international projects at Hassell, 10 Design and WilkinsonEyre. The VersaTile research project continues to inspire and shape her interests in the field. 

Zoey Hwee Ting Tan is a practicing architect working across residential, tourism, and hospitality projects. She is interested in the relationship between construction methodologies and architectural quality, questioning how beauty, craft, and material expression can be retained within increasingly efficiency-driven modes of production.

LAVAFORMING

Arnhildur Pálmadóttir & Arnar Skarphéðinsson

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Discrete Architecture
Electronic Language International Festival

Lavaforming – Iceland

Lavaforming is the technique of harnessing volcanic eruptions to shape new architecture. A single effusive eruption provides enough building material for an entire city. In a matter of weeks, the foundations are laid without harmful mining or reliance on non-renewable energy. In this short-film, we travel a hundred years into the future to visit the city of Eldborg. Through the eyes of its future inhabitants, we learn how the development of this technique, alongside the collapse of the climate, ushered in an era of radical change driven by architectural innovation.

BIO

Sukanya Mukherjee is a designer and filmmaker based out of Los Angeles, CA. With a focus in speculative design, her work lives in the overlaps between film and architecture which she considers innate extensions of one another. Lavaforming is her second short-film, previously exhibited in the Icelandic Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture and is currently being shown at the Reykjavik Art Museum.

Arnar Skarphéðinsson is an architect and filmmaker based in Reykjavík, Iceland. His work focuses on architecture’s ability to visualize different futures through filmmaking techniques and video game technology. He is the co-creator of Lavaforming, which was previously exhibited in the Icelandic Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture and is currently being shown at the Reykjavik Art Museum.

Arnhildur Pálmadóttir is an architect and founder of s.ap arkitektar. She approaches projects through innovative thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration, with focus on research and circular innovation in the construction industry. Arnhildur also works on experimental projects including the Lavaforming project, Iceland’s contribution to the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Arnhildur and s.ap architects have received numerous awards and international nominations, and their work has been featured widely in both Icelandic and international media.

Director: Sukanya Mukherjee, Arnar Skarphéðinsson. Writer: Andri Snær Magnason. Executive Producer: Arnhildur Pálmadóttir . Animators: Sukanya Mukherjee, Arnar Skarphéðinsson. Sound: Kjartan Thors Hagedorn-Olsen. Music: Jack Armitage. Mixing and Mastering: Josh Wilkinson. Voices: Edda Björg Eyjólfsdóttir, Úlfur Hansson, Andri Snær Magnason, Melkorka Ólafsdóttir, Helga Lára Þorsteinsdóttir. Costume Design: Björg Skarphéðinsdóttir