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Grégory Chatonsky has created an agent capable of generating alternative versions of films. Here, the artist returns once again to Vertigo (1958), a film he has continuously reworked over the decades. The axis of each shot is automatically altered, then an AI analyzes each of these regenerated images to “predict” what happens in the following 5 seconds. These textual predictions become prompts designed to generate new videos, thus creating an infinite cycle of transformation. The result is a second film, born from the regenerated and degraded memory of the original film. The characters seem to wander, changing faces, in perpetual quest for a story, for an event that eludes them, for a world that crumbles. The images unfold in obsessive variations, where Vertigo appears as a matrix of cinema itself, a narrative that endlessly replays itself within its own obsessions and visual perversions. The AI served to complete, pursue, and intensify this internal perversion. Olivier Alary composed the music.