Inserting Vertov’s Kino-Eye into the body of a dog inhabiting a Kurosawa-esque dream, this short film investigates the overlapping of life and cinema by means of artificial intelligence. Here, instead of mimicking existing moving images, AI allows the daily lives of humans, animals, and plants to meet in a collective story. In such an environment, humans embody dreams, while dogs and apple trees narrate their plots as the main characters in the Garden of Eden. Grounded in a real-life dream, KYNÆYE is an unpolished exploration of bio/cinemato\graphy, which I experience alongside my partner, my dog and my plants. It is a life between dreams and reality, Super 8 footage and AI generation, found objects and lost memories.
Presentation:
apple box cut is a radically limited, single-copy edition of KYNÆYE. It hangs the story of an apple tree on an actual apple tree—right inside an apple box. Apple boxes, seemingly purely instrumental, are invisible in cinema. They are used to lift things and change perspectives but are never seen in the frame. apple box cut [KYNÆYE] **reverses this situation by rendering cinema invisible inside an apple box—as something that can only be encountered through accident or curiosity.
What was once invisible inside cinema—now contains cinema.