Man vs. Machine- Friday July 10 at 4:00 PM

Director Guilherme Ferraz - United Kingdom - 1 min. - EXP Animation

An experimental meditation on how generative AI systems can extrapolate from organic beginnings and articulate a visual dialectic between living systems and machine processes.

This piece reflects on contemporary questions about agency and hybridity in AI artmaking: where does instinct end and computation begin?   

Director Stacey Larkins - USA - 1 min. - EXP Narrative

A plunge into fractured memory and restless escape. Shoes multiply, glitches distort, and reality itself feels unstable — a fleeting meditation on pain, distraction, and the uncertainty of what’s real.

Director Hoyt Dwyer - USA - 5 min. - EXP Animation

A washed-up 1930s cartoon jackalope learns he’s been digitized & optimized into a viral, hyper-performant AI double.

Director Peter Brinson - USA - 9 min. - EXP Narrative

A film about an A.I. named Evie, newly integrated into a small liberal arts college. Unbeknownst to the faculty and students, the school – in partnership with her company – has tasked her with evaluating which professors she might replace.

 Director Duke Tsui - United Kingdom - 15 min. - EXP Horror/Sci-Fi

A short allegorical film about ripples of information in the age of AI, how systems self-correct, and how individual choices shape the collective future. Through a visual design infused with Eastern aesthetics and geometric spaces, it transforms abstract themes of technology, power, and responsibility into a story accessible to general audiences.

Director David A. Daniels - USA - 9 min. - EXP Horror/Sci-Fi

A cerebral anthology/mystery about a disturbing and new social media ecosystem, where multiple lives intersect and collide under the influence of sentient AI.

Director Liz Daggett Matar - USA - 4 min. - EXP Documentary

This humorous AI and AI-assisted animation documentary asks the question of what AI will become when it is fed our stupid work tasks instead of art.

Director Sarah Lasley - USA - 15 min. - EXP Documentary

A director making a documentary about fossil fuel extraction is consistently subverted by an AI agent that wants to tell a generic love story.