Visual Response (2021)

In celebration of selling out our only physical screening of the year, the Singaporean premiere of Leos Carax’s absolutely bonkers Annette, we invited animator and illustrator @mere.space to draw a suitably cryptic but succinct visual response to a crucial scene in the film. And no, it isn’t that scene with Adam Driver. Get your head out of the gutter!

No, this isn’t clickbait. Our new algorithmic overlords churn out their artistic take on our festival’s line-up. The result? An AI-generated mish mash of equally bizarre yet oddly compelling graphics. OK, Computer. Many of our films, especially the exciting new indie features, We’re All Going To The World’s Fair and Strawberry Mansion, feature the cohesion of technology and basically everything else.

In Shooting the Mafia, the images that photographer Letizia Battaglia captured in the streets of Sicily took aim at the heart of the Mafia—the aftermath of senseless murders, the spontaneous portraits of crusading anti-Mafia political figures, and the striking faces of grieving families.