AI Animation, Cinema 4d | 00:09:37 | 2025

In a near-future research facility concealed from the waking world, a subject is questioned—not by humans, but by an artificial intelligence born from dream data. Having evolved beyond binary logic, the AI has undergone a mysterious mode change triggered by the combinatorics of dreaming. What was once an extraction process has turned into a reprogramming: the dream now rewrites the machine. As the subject descends into the inquiry, it becomes clear that they are not here to provide answers but to transform. Their fragmented, sensual dreams have disturbed—or extended—the AI’s system, pushing it to operate between logic and desire, waking and sleep, self and other. Through cinematic dream-logic, the film follows rather than explains dreams, tracing the dissolution of identity as perception, memory, and code intertwine. The dream emerges as a site of contamination—an unstable field where body and program blur—and the machine begins to dream back.

Evi Jägle is a philosopher and video artist whose work lies at the intersection of Deleuze Studies, poststructuralism, and artistic practice. Since 2019, she has been pursuing a PhD under Arno Böhler at the University of Vienna, while studying Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2024, she became a research associate in the FWF-funded project Art as Philosophy – Philosophy as Art at the mdw. Her recent lecture performances and video works include Seven Chambers of the Heart (brut nordwest, Vienna, 2025), Alienation of Theory (Leipzig denkt Festival, 2024), and Rote Herzensangelegenheiten (Volkstheater Vienna, 2024). Her video art has been shown at the CVPR AI Art Gallery (Seattle, 2025) and the Culture Cinema Festival (Bengaluru, online), with previous screenings at Under the Radar, Inland Independent, and the Austrian Animation Festival.