Chimera (Edison)

Chimera (Edison) is an experimental short film that reinterprets Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through the lens of machine learning and archetypical myth. I trained a custom AI model on trail-camera images of deer and used it to transform Edison Picture’s 1910 Frankenstein, producing a shifting sequence of human–animal hybrids in a glitching forest environment. The film treats AI as a contemporary outcropping of technological folklore, where long-standing myths of artificial life re-emerge through algorithmic systems. By merging archival cinema, surveillance imagery, and generative hallucination, Chimera reflects on how data extraction, machine vision, and environmental observation reshape the boundary between human, animal, and machine intelligence. The work proposes the algorithm as a site of ritual and myth-making. An unstable space where new hybrid entities and speculative narratives can emerge.