Remi Picó © PASOLINI BEING HUMAN, 5min

A.I. generated video

 

March 25th 6-9pm, 2023 ShortCuts Film Movie Festival

Presented by Shed Gallery

Milwaukee, WI, USA

 

 

Remi Picó © PASOLINI BEING HUMAN

AI generation of facial expressions and movement

P.Faoro © 

music composition

by Paola Faoro

based on the

hendecasyllabic metric of the

“La Religione del Mio Tempo” by P.P. Pasolini

PASOLINI BEING HUMAN

Pasolini Being Human is a short film and site-specific video-sound installation generated by a deep neural network. The project pays tribute to film director, poet, writer, and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini on the centenary of his birth. Using a series of computer vision AI models and a high-performance computing cluster, Pasolini’s face and ‘micro’ facial expressions were generated in an inverted chronological sequence, from adulthood back to childhood, symbolizing both the rebirth of the body and the rediscovery of a shared humanity, themes central to Pasolini’s work. The soundtrack, created in collaboration with designer and musician Paola Faoro, is composed from the hendecasyllabic rhythm and meter of an excerpt from Pasolini’s autobiographical poem La Religione del Mio Tempo (1955–1960). The project was first presented at the 2022 Foiano Book Festival in Tuscany, Italy, in an exhibition curated by Massimo Magurano. It forms part of a broader artistic research initiative with no commercial intent, aimed at re-discovering and re-imagining the past through the contemporary lens of cutting-edge technologies.

Remi Picó © PASOLINI BEING HUMAN

site-specific  video Installation

SOMart Space, Boston, 2022

Remi Picó © PASOLINI BEING HUMAN

site-specific video installation

Foiano Book Festival 2022, Italy

Exhibition curated by Massimo Magurano