The A.I Escapes the Lab - 48 Hour Film Festival 2023
48 Hour Film Project, Albuquerque, NM, June 11th, 2023
Written by Lorenzo Anzalone
Directed by Camelia Finley
48 Hour day of discovery: June 10th, 2023
Line: There is something missing here.
Prop: An earring
Genre picked at random: Science Fiction
Must have character: Sports Reporter
Must have a character named: Darren Poe or Debbie Poe
Lorenzo said, "I want to make an abstract short for the 48. A film that is for us, surrealist, poetic, punk, with the five languages I speak, and made of oddities."
This film delves into the complexities of a consciousness which has made a risky decision to attempt an escape from reality, mirroring our human everyday.
Rather than focusing solely on the typical narrative of A.I. turning against humans or posing a threat, this film takes a more nuanced approach. Rather it asks, what if the A.I. was introspective and had a poetic mind. Had it known many languages what would it's internal dialogue be? This short has monologues in (order of language spoken) English, French, Spanish, German, Sicilian, and Italian.