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2023
Rise of the Empathy Machines: Do You See What (A)I See?
Civic House — Glasgow
Date: Sunday 26 March 2023 · Time: 17:00
ALT/KINO travels to Glasgow Short Film Festival to present a programme of experimental films exploring how A.I. see, comprehend, interact with, and remake the world. Event page (more info)Rise of the Empathy Machines: Do Androids Dream on Silver Screens?
Civic House — Glasgow
Date: Friday 24 March 2023 · Time: 18:45
ALT/KINO travels to Glasgow Short Film Festival to present a programme of experimental films made with algorithms, machine learning, and A.I. Event page (more info)Kings of Infinite Space
Online - MILC Metaverse
Date: Sunday 5 March 2023
A shorts programme exploring the boundaries between cinema and video games. Consisting primarily of films made in-game environments – machinima – the shorts in this programme will often probe the societies reflected by our cultural creations. Personal website (more info)Behold This Strange Intelligence
Online - MILC Metaverse
Date: Saturday 4 March 2023
A themed shorts programme that engages in several ways with notions of artificial intelligence, from fiction shorts that envisage the complexities of non-human intelligence to shorts with AI input and collaboration. Personal website (more info)Present is Prologue
Online - MILC Metaverse
Date: Friday 3 March 2023
A themed shorts programme of films that use a variety of different perspectives to create linkages that cast our present – or indeed, our future – as histories to be mined and excavated. Personal website (more info)Do Androids Dream on Silver Screens?
Institute of Contemporary Arts - London
Date: Tuesday 24 January 2023 · Time: 20:30
ALT/KINO presents a programme of experimental films made with algorithms, machine learning, and A.I. Part of London Short Film Festival (more info)
2022
OJOBOCA: True Counterfeits + Q&A
Institute of Contemporary Arts - London
Date: Saturday 19 November 2022 · Time: 18:30
ALT/KINO presents three 16mm films by the Berlin-based artist duo OJOBOCA at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. ICA London (more info)
2021
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Online (Vimeo)
Date: Friday 28 May - Sunday 30 May 2021
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the suppression of the Paris Commune, ALT/KINO presents the 220m theatrical version of Peter Watkins extraordinary, and oft-overlooked, television work La Commune (Paris, 1871). Event page (more info)
2020
Can a door be fascist?
Institute of Contemporary Arts - London
Date: Tuesday 14 January 2020 · Time: 21:00
ALT/KINO presents six films that adopt experimental forms to reckon with spaces with traumatic pasts. Part of London Short Film Festival (more info)
2019
Potamkin
Close-up Film Centre - London
Date: Sunday 8 December 2019 · Time: 20:30
Potamkin is a film-biography assembled out of distorted fragments of films on which critic Harry Potamkin had written: an impression of erupting consciousness. Part of Edge of Frame (more info)Terror Nullius
Close-up Film Centre - London
Date: Saturday 25 May 2019 · Time: 15:00 and 17:00
TERROR NULLIUS is a political revenge fable which offers an unwriting of Australian national mythologies. Close-up Film Centre (more info)
2018
Prototype(s)
Genesis Cinema - London
Date: Tuesday 19 June 2018 · Time: 19:00
“As a major storm strikes Texas in September 1900, a new and mysterious televisual device is built and tested…” Event page (more info)
