The Jettison
What if anything you imagine, could be made real? What if anything you remember, could be rewritten?
A film by Michael C Coldwell and AI
Logline: A scientist searches for his lost daughter in a wasteland at the end of the world, but finds that she isn’t what she seems...
The film began life as a homage to Chris Marker’s La Jetée, but here a different kind of post-apocalyptic future is explored.
A haunting vision of a world in which machines now control everything, including our memories and our dreams.
When a giant solar flare destroys all the machines that human beings have come to rely on for everything, this dreamworld is completely shattered.
Roth tries to piece things back together and deal with his grief.
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A Hauntology of AI
The Jettison was also a practice research project into the storytelling potential of generative AI and virtual photography as a new form of media, looking at the possibilities and pitfalls of “collaborating” with learning machines creatively, alongside exploring their uncanny spectral and mnemonic qualities.
More on this work coming soon.
