Work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cinema — through filmmaking, essay writing, conference programming, and creative coding experiments.
The documentary film Afterlives and its companion essay mark a first sustained engagement with AI as a creative and archival tool — using generative image-making to explore the boundaries of memory, documentation, and documentary form.
Feature documentary premiered at DocLisboa and BFI London Film Festival, incorporating AI image generation as part of its archival practice — using generative tools to reconstruct and reimagine historical visual material.
FilmEssay on generative AI as a tool for exploring and reimagining archival audiovisual material — tracing how the AI sequences in Afterlives were made and what they propose about machine vision, memory, and documentary form. Published in Carrier Bag (2025).
Essay · Carrier Bag, 2025The Future of Reality Conference at the Locarno Film Festival brought together artists, filmmakers, and scholars to examine AI's transformation of documentary, nonfiction cinema, and audiovisual culture. The conversations from that gathering are now being developed into a book.
Convened leading artists and scholars — including Hito Steyerl and Philippe Parreno — to examine AI, algorithmic media, and the future of nonfiction cinema at the Locarno Film Festival, August 2025.
Locarno Film Festival, 2025A volume emerging from the Future of Reality Conference, bringing together contributions from participants on AI, documentary, and the transformation of audiovisual culture. In preparation.
In PreparationExperiments in AI-assisted creative coding — using natural language prompting to build games, tools, and interactive experiences. These projects explore what becomes possible when domain expertise in cinema, pedagogy, and festival culture is combined with AI code generation.
Game
An interactive narrative game set across 10 days of the Locarno Film Festival — choose your character, make choices, shape your festival experience.
↗Simulation
A USI Bachelor simulator — turning the rhythms and textures of academic life into an interactive experience.
↗Interactive Essay
A five-year journey through the video essay form, rendered as an interactive experience — exploring the expanding field of videographic criticism.
↗Quiz
Test your knowledge of the video essay form — a playful quiz for scholars, critics, and enthusiasts of videographic criticism.
Work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cinema — through filmmaking, essay writing, conference programming, and creative coding experiments.
Feature documentary premiered at DocLisboa and BFI London Film Festival. Incorporates AI image generation as part of its archival practice — using generative tools to reconstruct and reimagine historical visual material.
Essay on generative AI as a tool for exploring and reimagining archival audiovisual material. Traces how the AI sequences in Afterlives were made and what they propose about machine vision, memory, and documentary form.
Convened at Locarno Film Festival 2025 with Hito Steyerl, Philippe Parreno, and others. Examining AI, algorithmic media, and the future of nonfiction cinema.
AI-assisted creative coding experiments — domain expertise in cinema and pedagogy combined with natural language code generation.
Locarno Film Festival, August 2025. Convened leading artists and scholars — including Hito Steyerl and Philippe Parreno — to examine AI, algorithmic media, and the future of nonfiction cinema.
A volume emerging from the Future of Reality Conference, bringing together contributions on AI, documentary, and the transformation of audiovisual culture. In preparation.