Pescies

Pescies is a vertical video combining AI-generated imagery and raw footage to explore cycles of life, memory, and transformation at the intersection of nature and human presence. Its vertical orientation echoes Sylvia Plath’s line, “I am vertical but I would rather be horizontal,” evoking tensions between endurance and yielding, appearance and disappearance, ascent and return. Inspired by river fish that swim upstream to lay their eggs before fading away, the work unfolds through a cyclical logic of renewal rather than a linear narrative. It begins with an egg (oou, Aromanian/Vlachika), a generative form linked to the imagined egg-shaped mountain Oou, a speculative source of the Aoos River. From this origin, fish and human figures merge, dissolve, and re-emerge within a continuous current. At the linguistic core is the Aromanian word gura, meaning both mouth and water spring. The phrase “gura cu gura…”(“from mouth to mouth, so nothing is lost”) frames language as circulation rather than preservation. Through the hybrid use of AI and documentary material, Pescies approaches life, language, and technology as mutable systems—never fixed, never finished, always in transformation.