DREAMERS (Peaceful Transition)

For the video, thousands of individual AI-generated images were created at 60 fps frames per second as a 12-hour animation. This source video was then edited with 50% slow motion to 24 hours as a normal film at 30 fps. The result is an entire day in slow motion in the minds of the characters.

The sound is a collage of different sources: various Buddhist chants and prayers (superimposed at different speeds), the recurring rhythmic sound of a Japanese wooden stick, the looped acoustic version of Radiohead's "In It's Right Place" and a daily collage of a television program running in the background.

We accompany thousands of people for a whole day in a moment of intimacy while they have their eyes closed.

We also listen to a meditative audio track from various Buddhist monk groups who say prayers for enlightenment according to their tradition.

Murmuring, breathing, singing, speaking, thinking.

Inner Buddha. Zooming in and out is like breathing.

The people imagine their part of the world. As a 24-hour video installation running somewhere in the background or continuously streamed in a loop day after day, they also represent the imaginary black box of the artificial intelligence that created them. This too is not dependent on our observation, but generates and hallucinates semantic thought flows as a simulation. The optical zoom either leads exactly to the middle of the square image or out from there: an objective continuation of an absolutely technical process.

Peaceful Transition

Yes, we give up.